Output pdf to php script?

[topkatz]

 I have a web app Im building and I have been using jasperserver for some of my more complex reports.  This web app is to be used in both a intranet and the web.  I would prefer to keep jasper as a seamless part off the app, and not require users to login.  I also wold like to avoid exposing the jasperserver to the web at all of posible.  

 

Is it posible to have php request a report from jasper and have jasper output a pdf file that I then just send to the user as an attachment?  This way the server only has to have the jasper user credentials, and I dont need to pass them or the report parameters in the url?

 

I can setup tomcat to use ssl, but to have the user not login I need to send the user credentils in the url, which is a bad idea over the web.  

 

 

[topkatz]

After digging around a bit I realized this is exactly what the web service is intended to be used for.  I now have a simple SOAP/PHP script that gets jasperserver to spit out the report to the user.