title: livelink integration with asp.net web application
body: <p>I am building a standard asp.net LOB application. i am planning to have some livelink urls showing up in some parts of the application, where the user clicks a download link and the document needs to be downloaded from the corresponding livelink URL and a save-as dialog needs to come up. </p>
  
  <p>for any direct http document URL, it is possible to use httpwebrequest and fetch the contents and stream it back to the browser. but with livelink URLs, there is a some page redirect where the current request acquires some cookie state and then the resulting URL is allowed to access the document content. </p>
  
  <p>i was wondering if there are any standard APIs/webservices that allow integration with livelink, such that a handshake can be done and a given document can be retrieved. </p>
  
  <p>any ideas? </p>