display text file contents in report

We have a report that pulls some info from an oracle table and displays the fields. (this all works fine)

One of the fields is the location of the log file. It's on a Windows share so the data looks like: 

\\servername\logs\logfile.log

The log file is all text.

Right now, the report displays the full path to this file. We have made this share universally available so it is readable by any user in the org including the user that Logi Info Server runs as.

What I'm trying to do is make the filename a link, so that when the user clicks on it, it either: 

a) opens the file in a new browser window using the Action.link=> element

b) runs a report that takes the full path name as a request parameter and then imports that file contents into the body of the report. 

I have not been successful in finding the right combination of Logi elements to use to make either of these ideas work. Can someone share some code or tell me what the correct elements to use in the report are?

Note: the log file is NOT on the same server as Logi Info, but Logi Info should have read access to the path

Does this need to be done with a Logi Info process definition?