AE using socket to import picture from URL - Need Your Help

Question

I have a project that works with local network using the path name. I want to update the project to replace all placeholders with a picture located at a URL address instead of the local network. I have no experience with socket coding and can't seem to find the right snippets of code on the internet to get me through this point of using URL as a file location.
I tried this code (using a picture at this URL as an example);
webConnect= new Socket;
if(webConnect.open("http://distilleryimage3.s3.amazonaws.com")) {
         webConnect.write('GET /2940b7e0236511e2af9022000a1f9a23_7.jpg HTTP/1.0nn');
          response=  webConnect.read();
          webConnect.close();
          alert('complete');
} else {
         alert('fail');
Any help will be appreciated. I need the results of the socket connection to be a object I can use in the statement
curItem.replace(new File( <picture path> );
Thanks again.

Answer 1

OK, this comes close to working. I can read the jpg file with QuickTime, though it is corrupted and the image is different color or hue. Nothing else will read the jpg file, it so my efforts to use After Effects have still not been met.
I have not idea why I have to read 1 byte at the beginning of the data set and discard it. I can't find enough information about the jpg header format but it seems there is corruption at the top of the downloaded file. Since I'm downloading the 'contentLength', it's odd that midstream I get corrupted data. It appears to be consistent too.
Anyway, I am about at a lose.
webConnect
= new Socket;
if(webConnect.open( "distilleryimage5.s3.amazonaws.com:80","binary")) {
webConnect.write('GET /distilleryimage5/17bdfa64237411e2a23c22000a1f9d66_7.jpg HTTP/1.0\n\n');
     var file= new File("httpSocket.jpg");
     file.encoding='BINARY'
     file.open ("w","binary");
var contentLength = ""
var statusCode = ""
for (var i = 0; i < 20; i++){
     var response =  webConnect.readln();
     if (new RegExp(/HTTP\/[0-9.]+\s([0-9]+)/).test(response)){
          statusCode = parseInt( new RegExp(/HTTP\/[0-9.]+\s([0-9]+)/).exec(response)[1]);
     else if (new RegExp(/Content-Length: ([0-9]+)/).test(response) ){
          contentLength = parseInt( new RegExp(/Content-Length: ([0-9]+)/).exec(response)[1]);
     else if (new RegExp(/Server: AmazonS3/).test(response) ) {
  break;
if (statusCode != 200) webConnect.close()
else{
alert('statusCode=' + statusCode + ' contentLength=' + contentLength);
    var data = webConnect.read(1);
var data = webConnect.read(contentLength);
file.write(data);
     file.close();
     file.execute();