Can I use java.net.Socket to download http content(image, mp3 file and other)?

I am a begginer in java/android. My question is: Can I download image(mp3 or other http contents) from http site using java.net.Socket? I am going to create several parallel threads for downloading the same contents.When one(thread) of them takes t开发者_StackOverflowime more MAX time, supervisor interupts it and start againg.

Thanks a lot.

Why are you trying to use java.net.socket?

You can use org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient.

Which is easy to implement I think.