title: Use HTTPWebRequest to get remote page's title
body: <p>I have a web service that acts as an interface between a farm of websites and some analytics software. Part of the analytics tracking requires harvesting the page title. Rather than passing it from the webpage to the web service, I would like to use <code>HTTPWebRequest</code> to call the page. </p>
  
  <p>I have code that will get the entire page and parse out the html to grab the title tag but I don't want to have to download the entire page to just get information that's in the head.</p>
  
  <p>I've started with </p>
  
  <pre><code>HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("url");  
  request.Method = "HEAD";
  </code></pre>