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The Reports URL Syntax
Table 13–1 Components of a URL that calls the Reports Servlet
Component Description
web_server The name you gave the Oracle HTTP Server when you installed
it.
domain_name Your organization's domain name.
port The port number on which the Oracle HTTP Server listens for
requests. When no port is specified, the default is used (80).
alias The virtual path that stands in for the absolute path to the files a
URL will access.
rwservlet Invokes the Reports Servlet.
? Identifies the beginning of the command line options.
parameters All the command line options, or the key to the key map file
where command line options are specified.
The URL that calls the Reports Servlet could look like this:
http://neptune.world.com:80/reports/rwservlet?keyname
Keyname refers to a command line listed under a unique header (the key name) in the
cgicmd.dat file. Note that this works differently for JSP files, which use the
keyword/value pair cmdkey=value to specify key names for command lines that are
stored in the cgicmd.dat file. You'll find more information about using key mapping
in Using a Key Map File.
Using the servlet does not mean that you cannot also use JSP report files, if the JSP files
contain both Web and paper layouts. When you run the report, specify the servlet in
the URL and call the JSP with the command line option: report=myreport.jsp.
For example:
http://neptune.world.com:80/reports/rwservlet?report=myreport.jsp&destype=cache&de
sformat=html
You'll find more information about command lines in Appendix A, "Command Line
Options".
Note: You can also supply these parameters within the JSP file
itself.
Note: If you shutdown or disable Web Cache and you run a report
through rwservlet to a browser with pagestreaming, the
resulting report output will not display correctly. This is expected
behavior as the port and listener property in httpd.conf
(Oracle HTTP Server configuration file) are not referring to the same
port.
If WebCache is to be bypassed / shutdown / disabled for requests to
Oracle Reports, then the value for Port should be changed to the
same value as Listen in the httpd.conf file.
13-2 Oracle Application Server Reports Services Publishing Reports to the Web