Web.Show_document issue in Reports6i

I am submitting a report through a form(in Oracle Apps), the report completes successfully. The status is shown as 'finished'. But the when I use the web.show_document to display the report, it says that the page does not exist. The report works fine when I submit it as a concurrent request.
I am working with D2K, the Reports and forms server is 6i.
Can someone just give me the format for calling the report through web.show_document...I just want to be sure that I am typing it correctly.
Regds,
Sujoy

Try using %20 in place of the space in the URL.

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I am facing some issue while seeing the report using web.show_document as shown below:
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# Purpose
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