Printing PDF documents using FOP

Hi,
I seem to be getting the following error when printing to PDF using FOP:
report error:
ORA-29273: HTTP request failed
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_HTTP", line 1186
ORA-12571: TNS:packet writer failure
I've set up PDF printing by following the (FOP) instructions in the following link:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/configure_printing.html
I've verified that my OC4J container and the jsp page apex_fop.jsp is running as it should as I can get PDF documents back if I call the jsp page outside of APEX (by sending in my own template and xml request parameters).
I've also verified that I do hit the apex_fop.jsp page when trying to print from within the APEX application. The problem is that the two parameters template and xml are both null when trying to print PDF from APEX.
It appears as though APEX is not sending in the template and xml request parameters.
My test case is to create a simply report query in shared components, use a generic layout, select the pdf option and click on Test Report. The result is the error shown above.
Any ideas? I know I'm close!
btw, I'm using 10g and APEX 3.1
Sanjeev

thanks Dimitri ..
I have progress... I went back and reconfig'd my oc4j, since Ihad donethat a long time ago.
Now I am getting the 500 Internal Server Error
Servlet eror: ... The current application deployment descriptors do not allow for including it in this response. Please consult the application log for details.
The application.log give me a dump ...
09/01/20 18:55:29.515 10.1.3.4.0 Started
09/01/20 18:55:29.718 fop: 10.1.3.4.0 Started
09/01/20 19:00:45.906 fop: Servlet error
oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Start of root element expected.
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors1(XMLError.java:320)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:341)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:303)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:320)
at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLProcessor.newXSLStylesheet(XSLProcessor.java:713)
at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLStylesheet.<init>(XSLStylesheet.java:321)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XSLStylesheet.<init>(XSLStylesheet.java:114)
at apex_fop._jspService(_apex__fop.java:71)
at com.orionserver[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0) ].http.OrionHttpJspPage.service(OrionHttpJspPage.java:59)
at oracle.jsp.runtimev2.JspPageTable.compileAndServe(JspPageTable.java:724)
at oracle.jsp.runtimev2.JspPageTable.service(JspPageTable.java:414)
at oracle.jsp.runtimev2.JspServlet.internalService(JspServlet.java:594)
at oracle.jsp.runtimev2.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:518)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0) ].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke(ServletRequestDispatcher
.java:713)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0) ].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher
.java:370)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.doProcessRequest(HttpRequestHandler
.java:871)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHandler
.java:453)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.serveOneRequest(HttpRequestHandler
.java:221)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:122)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:111)
at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketReadHandler$SafeRunnable.run(ServerSocketReadHandler.java:260)
at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler.procClientSocket(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:234)
at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler.access$700(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:29)
at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler$AcceptHandlerHorse.run(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:879)
at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.4.0) ].util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor
.java:303)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Not sure what to make of this, but it does give the xact same error each time.
For what it's worth, I can successfully call a test page per Marc Sewtz's blog, so conceptually something is working, which is progress. I'll keep at it, but suggestions are welcome. Thanks for the direction.
Karen

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