To Call an external application Web

Hello,
I want from a menu entry OeBS to be able of call an application by an external link url (example: http://localhost:8080/MyApplication)
Do you know what I have to save function to make that HTML Call ?
(System Administrator -> Application -> Function)
Thank you

so if you have a test_launch.jsp in the $OA_HTML directory containing the following lines
<%-- --%>
<% response.sendRedirect("http://servername.domain.com:8080/MyApplication"); %>
<%-- --%>
You get that error when calling the function from within the ebusiness suite?
What happens if you go directly to http://ebusiness_servername.domain.com:port/OA_HTML/test_launch.jsp

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