Problem Linking Files In Web Page

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   I am working on a web page where users will upload files and fill out a description of the file.

If there is a read me  or help file included, the user will select a check box indicating that there is more information available and type in the location of that file, which will be held on a separate file server, not the web server itself.

Alternatively, if there is a website that contains more information about the file, the user would type the URL into the field instead.

Here is the code from the page where this info is displayed.

<a href="<%=rs("link")%>"><%=rs("more_information")%></a>

If the check box on the form was selected a link appears (The check box simply puts the text "More Information" into the proper field of the datase).

The problem is that it points to

http://webserver.com/#file:\\fileserver\help.chm#

instead of

file:\\fileserver\help.chm

or

http://webserver.com/#http://google.com#

instead of

http://www.google.com

If I change the code to

<a href="http://<%=rs("link")%>"><%=rs("more_information")%></a>

or

<a href="file:\\<%=rs("link")%>"><%=rs("more_information")%></a>

it works, but them I am limited to either just files or just web links. I don't know what to do to fix this.

Thanks in advance for any help!