Popup document through PL/SQL Procedure

Question

Hi, I am wandering howcome we popup any document, sitting on my server ,through a PL/SQL procedure. I do not want to read the content of that document, which we can do through UTL_FILE, but want to open that document. I have the URL(,location) of the document ,but just don't know how I can open this document with URL, in PL/SQL.
So, help me out. Thanks.

Answer 1

Reading a web page using PLSQL is really easy.
If you are running 10g, skip this ACL prerequisite and jump to the code below.
If you are running 11g, there are a couple of housekeeping prerequisites. You need to create the network ACLs in the database to allow access to the pages you are interested in. Like this:
BEGIN
      -- create the ACL
      DBMS_NETWORK_ACL_ADMIN.CREATE_ACL(
         acl          => 'oreillynet-permissions.xml'
        ,description  => 'Network permissions for www.oreillynet.com'
        ,principal    => 'SYSTEM'
        ,is_grant     => TRUE
        ,privilege    => 'connect'
        ,start_date   => SYSTIMESTAMP
        ,end_date     => NULL
      -- assign privileges to the ACL
      DBMS_NETWORK_ACL_ADMIN.ADD_PRIVILEGE (
          acl        => 'oreillynet-permissions.xml'
         ,principal  => 'SYSTEM'
         ,is_grant   => TRUE
         ,privilege  => 'connect'
         ,start_date => SYSTIMESTAMP
         ,end_date   => null
      -- define the allowable destintions
      DBMS_NETWORK_ACL_ADMIN.ASSIGN_ACL (
          acl        => 'oreillynet-permissions.xml'
         ,host       => 'www.orillynet.com'
         ,lower_port => 80
         ,upper_port => 80
    END;Here is the code to read the web page:
DECLARE
   WebPageURL HttpUriType;
   WebPage CLOB;
BEGIN
   --Create an instance of the type pointing
   --to Arup Nanda's Author Bio page at OReilly
   WebPageURL := HttpUriType.createUri('http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2307');
   --Retrieve the web page via HTTP
   WebPage := WebPageURL.getclob();
   --Display the page title
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(regexp_substr(WebPage,'<title>.*</title>'));
END;
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