On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, M.W. Koskamp wrote:

> It depends on what kind of service you want to offer.
> You could use apache and mod_perl which is available for VMS to set up an
> application server and handle requests.
> If you want a file service you could use an ftp server (sorry for stating
> the obvious).

Actually it is a service i invented. :)  The majority of our email systems
are PMDF, and we have an IMAP based web interface for most users, but i
need a web interface to PMDF to allow people to set/show forwards.  The
perl script will listen on an arbitrary tcp port.  The client is a web
page (in php or perl) that'll just connect to the VMS service,
authenticate, then set or show the forward.

The server is ugly cause it needs to create an intermediary DCL script.  I
could not find a way to do 'pmdf mail show forward rdejean' in one command
line.

I am aware of Apache for VMS, but the last time i used it, it was not a
very stable webserver (perhaps a year or so ago).  Has this changed?  
And to accomplish this task, my very small service runs as a privileged
user to set/show forwards.  I would rather not run Apache with such
privileges.

Any other suggestions on how i could accomplish this task are greatly
appreciated... thanks!

-Ray
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Ray DeJean                                       http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist              AIX Administration, AIX Support
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