diff -dPNur libtranslate-0.99/src/modules/translate-generic-service.c libtranslate-0.99-new/src/modules/translate-generic-service.c
--- libtranslate-0.99/src/modules/translate-generic-service.c	2007-06-27 17:26:10.000000000 +0200
+++ libtranslate-0.99-new/src/modules/translate-generic-service.c	2007-06-27 17:23:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -1042,6 +1042,13 @@
 
       g_free(response);
     }
+    
+    if ((!answer)&&(!*err)) {
+	    g_set_error(err,
+			TRANSLATE_GENERIC_SERVICE_ERROR,
+			TRANSLATE_GENERIC_SERVICE_ERROR_PARSE,
+			_("empty server response"));
+    }
 
   return answer ? g_string_free(answer, FALSE) : NULL;
 }