Defining an InterClient URL

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InterClient URLs have the following format:

jdbc:interbase://server/full_db_path[?properties]

“InterBase” is the sub-protocol, and server is the hostname of the InterBase server. full_db_path (that is, “sub-subname”) is the full pathname of a database file, including the initial slash (/). If the InterBase server is a Windows system, you must include the drive name as well. InterClient does not support passing any attributes in the URL. For local connections, use:

server = "localhost"

Note: The “/” between the server and full_db_path is a delimiter. When specifying the path for a Unix-based database, you must include the initial “/” for the root directory in addition to the “/” for the delimiter.

In a Unix-based database, the following URL refers to the database orders.ib in the directory /dbs on the Unix server accounts.

dbURL = "jdbc:interbase://accounts//dbs/orders.ib"

In a Windows server, the following URL refers to the database customer.ib in the directory /dbs on drive C of the server support.

dbURL = "jdbc:interbase://support/C:/dbs/customer.ib"