DnD file in native explorer with deferred download

Hi community,
I am trying to provide functionality to drag and drop a file from our application to native explorer. It is pretty easy to do this if the file is present in the source folder to which the transferrable data points. But the problem is that the attachments in the application in fact reside on an FTP server anf it may take some time to pull the file locally. The ideal solution would be to find out where the user wants to drop the file and download it when the drop is finished.
However I cannot find a way to do this, because I cannot find the target of the drop (I thought of creating a small stub file, putting it as transfer data and after drop do the actual work).
The only possibility I currently see is to download the file in a temporary folder when a drag gesture is recognized(the files are shown in a table) and set the drop action to move, so the source file is deleted after drop(or delete it myself in case of rejected drop).
But since download is time consuming it is not good to do this in the event thread, but OTOH, if I do it in a separate thread explorer will say that the file is being used if the user drops before download has finished.
Please share your experience if you had a similar problem, ideas and pointers to information are welcome.
Mike

Thanks for the input,
Maybe this could be an idea. But I am not quite sure
about this, since we specify user, password and port,
but maybe these could be specified in the FTP URL, I
will check if this could be a solution and post
whatever the result.
I seem to remember that DrClap posted an example of an FTP url that included a user and password. Searching might find it (as long as you use Goggle rather than Sun).
The port should be easy as it is part of the standard url format.

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