URI, URL or something else?

Hi.

I need to send some files to many destinations. Some are mails, some are files in some disk, some are bcp's that must be executed.

Example:

A report can be sent in .txt to a system operator via mail, in .pdf to the guy with the tie, the BCP to some table in some database, and copy a xls in some directory.

I have separate classes for mail and bcp.

But i want to make  the "copy to a directory" a very generic class, so it supports both ftp:// and file://. Are those things "URI" or "URL's"?

(The language is perl 5.10, by the way, on Windows 2003 Server)

Really? I wasted my time reading all that for the question to be “Are ftp:// and file:// "URIs" or "URLs"?”