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John_Edwards
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We have a requirement -- an end-user clicks on a drill-down and in return would like a pdf generated by an existing tool that is not WF. It has a url API that we can utilize with a proxy ID, but wd want to make sure the end-users don't see the details of the proxy ID or even the call itself.

In short, we would like a focexec to make a call to a url, and then pass the resulting pdf output back to the user.

We can't quite figure out the best way to do this, anyone out there doing this currently?

J.

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Waz
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I can think of a couple of ways.

Call a Java Program to call the URL and save the PDF.

Use a JSP to hide the call away on the Web Server.

There is also a dodgy technique to do this with WebFOCUS. There is a program called interp, that can call a URL and return the results. Don't know if it would support the saving of the PDF.


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John_Edwards
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While looking for an answer I stumbled across an http redirect via Apache, which may be an option as well. Easy to implement and presumably transparent to the end user, I'll just need to see if there is a way to embed parameters into the resulting url string.



 
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John_Edwards
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I've closed the thread as the requirement has been overcome by events. JSP is a viable option, as is an Apache redirect. Good luck!

J.



 
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