IllegalArgumentException: Missing 'text' parameter

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Hello.

I have started the latest server version of LT on my remote Linux like that:
java -cp languagetool-server.jar org.languagetool.server.HTTPServer --port 8081

It starts very, very slowly. (~40 seconds) After the server is active, I have tried to interact with it like that:
curl http://myserver:8081/v2/check?language=en&text=my+text

However, I tried to start on the Linux server as localhost - with success, but unfortunately this Exception will be thrown:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Missing ‘text’ parameter
at org.languagetool.server.LanguageToolHttpHandler.handle(LanguageToolHttpHandler.java:202)
at com.sun.net.httpserver.Filter$Chain.doFilter(Filter.java:79)
at sun.net.httpserver.AuthFilter.doFilter(AuthFilter.java:83)
at com.sun.net.httpserver.Filter$Chain.doFilter(Filter.java:82)
at sun.net.httpserver.ServerImpl$Exchange$LinkHandler.handle(ServerImpl.java:675)
at com.sun.net.httpserver.Filter$Chain.doFilter(Filter.java:79)
at sun.net.httpserver.ServerImpl$Exchange.run(ServerImpl.java:647)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

I have tried to swap the parameters of the url like that:
curl http://localhost:8081/v2/check?text=my+text&language=en

This is the result:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Missing ‘language’ parameter. Specify language or use autodetect=1 for auto-detecting the language of the input text.
at org.languagetool.server.LanguageToolHttpHandler.getLanguageAutoDetect(LanguageToolHttpHandler.java:420)
at org.languagetool.server.LanguageToolHttpHandler.checkText(LanguageToolHttpHandler.java:348)
at org.languagetool.server.LanguageToolHttpHandler.handle(LanguageToolHttpHandler.java:205)
at com.sun.net.httpserver.Filter$Chain.doFilter(Filter.java:79)
at sun.net.httpserver.AuthFilter.doFilter(AuthFilter.java:83)
at com.sun.net.httpserver.Filter$Chain.doFilter(Filter.java:82)
at sun.net.httpserver.ServerImpl$Exchange$LinkHandler.handle(ServerImpl.java:675)
at com.sun.net.httpserver.Filter$Chain.doFilter(Filter.java:79)
at sun.net.httpserver.ServerImpl$Exchange.run(ServerImpl.java:647)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)

It seems like the 2. parameter does get ignored.

I have tried the same version on my local windows, and there everything works fine.

I hope you can help me fix this weird problem.

Many thanks for your work.

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You need to use the --public option if you want the server to be accessible from somewhere else than just localhost.

& is a special character in the shell, you need to use quotes around the URL:

curl "http://localhost:8081/v2/check?text=my+text&language=en"
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Many many thanks Daniel for the fast answer! It’s working fine now.

By the way: Is is possible to dedect only the language of the text without all the grammer checks?

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Not really… but you could turn off all rules (one by one, or at least category by category).

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Okey thank you!