W3C Validation Check

Project Notes

Nagios Plugin to check the W3C conformity of a website. The Plugin returns a Warning, when at least 1 error occurred in the validation

Example usage in Nagios:
Command: $USER1$/check_w3c.sh --markup --domain $ARG1$ --doctype $ARG2$ --encoding $ARG3$

Service: check_w3c.sh!http://www.markuswalther.org/!HTML5!utf8

Partially written by me! Markus Walther

This Plugin is based on the work of <edgleyUK> who wrote the bash script "bashw3c". Original source for the W3C Plugin:
https://github.com/edgleyUK/bashw3c

"bashw3c" was licensed under the Apache License, Version 2

Usage:
1. Types
--style CSS Validator
--markup HTML/XHTML Validator

2. Switches
--domain [DOMAIN] Domain name to run validator on
--doctype [DOCTYPE] Force checking markup type against specific doctype
--encoding [ENCODING] Force checking markup type against specific encoding
--profile [PROFILE] Force checking css type against specific profile
--media [MEDIUM] Force checking css type against specific medium type

Doctypes: HTML5, XHTML 1.0 (Strict, Transitional, Frameset), HTML 4.01 (Strict, Transitional, Frameset), HTML 3.2, HTML 2.0, XHTML 1.1, SVG 1.0, SVG 1.1, SVG 1.1 Tiny, SVG 1.1 Basic, MathML 2.0, SMIL (1.0, 2.0)

Encodings: utf-8, utf-16, iso-9959-(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-i, 7, 8, 8-i, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16), us-ascii, euc-jp, shift_jis, iso-2022-jp, euc-kr, ksc_5601, gb2312, gb18030, big5, big5-HKSCS, tis-620, koi8-r, koi8-u, iso-ir-111, macintosh, windows-12(50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)

Profiles: css1, css2, css21, css3, svg, svgbasic, mobile, atsc-tv, tv

Mediums: all, braille, embossed, handheld, print, projection, screen, tty, tv, presentation

Run ./check_w3c [TYPE] for a list of switches relevant to that type