NAME

vnu-client – HTTP client to a server instance of the Nu Html Checker

SYNOPSIS

java -cp ~/vnu.jar -D[property=value]... nu.validator.client.HttpClient [FILE]...

vnu-runtime-image/bin/java -D[property=value]... nu.validator.client.HttpClient [FILE]...

vnu-runtime-image\bin\java.exe -D[property=value]... nu.validator.client.HttpClient [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

vnu-client is the HTTP client to run from the command line to either send documents to a locally-running instance of the checker HTTP service (vnu-server) — for fast command-line checking — or to a remote instance anywhere on the Web.

OPTIONS

FILE

File you wish to send to the server for check.

PROPERTIES

When using the packaged HTTP client for sending documents to an instance of the checker HTTP service for checking, you can set Java system properties to control configuration options for the checker behavior.

Most of the properties listed below map to the common input parameters for the checker service, as documented at github.com/validator/validator/wiki/Service-»-Common-params.

nu.validator.client.host=hostname

Specifies the hostname of the checker for the client to connect to.
default: "127.0.0.1"

example: nu.validator.client.host=127.0.0.1

nu.validator.client.port=port

Specifies the port of the checker for the client to connect to.
default: "8888"

example: nu.validator.client.port=8080

nu.validator.client.path=path

Specifies the path of the checker for the client to connect to.
default: "/"

example: nu.validator.client.path=/vnu

nu.validator.client.level=error

Specifies the severity level of messages to report; to suppress
warning-level messages, and only show error-level ones, set this property to
"error".
default: [unset]
possible values: "error"

example: nu.validator.client.level=error

nu.validator.client.parser=parser

Specifies which parser to use.
default: "html"; or, for *.xhtml input files, "xml"
possible values: [see information at URL below]

https://github.com/validator/validator/wiki/Service-%C2%BB-Common-params#parser

nu.validator.client.charset=encoding

Specifies the encoding of the input document.
default: [unset]

nu.validator.client.content-type=content-type

Specifies the content-type of the input document.
default: "text/html"; or, for *.xhtml files, "application/xhtml+xml"

nu.validator.client.out=output-format

Specifies the output format for messages.
default: "gnu"
possible values: [see information at URL below]

https://github.com/validator/validator/wiki/Service-%C2%BB-Common-params#out

nu.validator.client.asciiquotes=boolean

Specifies whether ASCII quotation marks are substituted for Unicode smart
quotation marks in messages.
default: "yes"
possible values: "yes" or "no"

EXAMPLES

To send FILE.html to an instance of the checker at http://html5.validator.nu/, invoke:

java -cp ~/vnu.jar -Dnu.validator.client.port=80 -Dnu.validator.client.host=html5.validator.nu nu.validator.client.HttpClient FILE.html

vnu-runtime-image/bin/java -Dnu.validator.client.port=80 -Dnu.validator.client.host=html5.validator.nu nu.validator.client.HttpClient FILE.html

To suppress warning-level messages and only show error-level ones by setting the value of the nu.validator.client.level system property to error, like this:

java -Dnu.validator.client.level=error -cp ~/vnu.jar nu.validator.client.HttpClient FILE.html

vnu-runtime-image/bin/java -Dnu.validator.client.level=error -cp ~/vnu.jar nu.validator.client.HttpClient FILE.html