Masking the URL of a Report

Hi,
I've integrated an oracle report with my application (built using apex 2.2). The url however displays the database instance username and password. Is there any way to mask these details of the URL.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Priyanka

Hi Patrick,
Thanks for the suggestion. This is the first time i'm integrating an oracle report with htmldb and have a requirement to mask the url.
Could you please give me the steps to put the username/password@db-instance into the cgicmd.dat file.Also what are the changes that need to be made in the URL that we put in htmldb to invoke the report if the cgicmd.dat file has the username/password and db-instance.
Thanks and Regards,
Priyanka

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