I just got out of a meeting where I learned that I'll have to be publishing some reports to SharePoint. So I did a little googling, and found that under Windows, you can access a sharepoint site via a UNC name. The URL:

sharepoint.domain.dom/sites/Roboticus/Test

is accessible via:

\\sharepoint.domain.com\sites\Roboticus\Test

So if you're running your code on a Windows client, you may be able to just treat it as another directory. (That's what I'm planning on doing.)

...roboticus