In order to customize the management interface, it is first necessary to understand how the CGIs process HTTP requests and formulate HTTP responses. This is described in Section 4.3.1 and Section 4.3.2. Section 5.2.1 describes the individual commands which can be embedded in those requests.

5.2.1 User Interface Commands

As described in Section 4.3.1, commands take the general form

command=command-name&parameter-name-1=parameter-value-1& ...&parameter-name-N=parameter-value-N

In the above, command-name gives the name of the command to execute. It is then followed by two or more parameters which provide supplemental information relevant to the operation to be performed. When parameter names are duplicated in the command, only the right most instance of the parameter=value pair is honored.

For those parameters whose values are file specifications, the file specifications must be relative file paths specifying files in the /pmdf/www/msps_user/ or /pmdf/www/chng_pwd/ directory trees on UNIX and NT systems, or the directories PMDF_ROOT:[WWW.MSPS_USER] and PMDF_ROOT:[WWW.CHNG_PWD] on OpenVMS systems.

The valid command names are listed in the table below and described in the following sections.

Command name	Section	Description
delete	5.2.1.1	Delete a message stored for the user (popstore only)
set_pwd	5.2.1.3	Change the password for the user
show	5.2.1.2	Show a message stored for the user (popstore only)
show_user	5.2.1.4	Show settings for the user account