Links in a document library

I am developing a document library where resources/documents can either be 'real' documents or just links to documents on the web. Is it possible to have this kind of amalgamation (both links and documents) inside document library?
If I remember it correctly, ultimately SharePoint stores the hyperlinks to documents in its fields and the actual content is stored in content database. If that is right, then I should be able to programmatically add links or document to the library. I just wanted to make sure that only real documents are allowed in the document library.
Another option would be to create a separate links library besides document library which I do not like because I will end up developing more custom code.
Thanks!

Hi Diffident,
What i will suggest you is that, you must create a new link column(custom column) in the same document library where you want to upload the documents and want to keeps the links as well. For that, go to document library -> Library Tab on
ribbon -> Library Settings then create a custom column.
So whenever you upload a document, you will have to mentioned the additional details.
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