URL Handling

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This section provides some general notes about how the OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing handles URLs:

  • OLE DB Provider handles case differently in two parts of the URL. The host (Web server) name in a URL is case-insensitive.  The rest of the URL is case-sensitive.
  • As stated in the OLE DB 2.5 specification, the OLE DB Provider requires that all incoming URLs be canonicalized. All URLs returned by the OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing are canonicalized.
    https://www.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/wininet/overview/url\_functions.asp
  • The OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing does not support URLs containing jump bookmarks (#). If jump bookmarks are specified the results are unpredictable.