.NET: Check URL's response status code?

Question

What\'s the easiest way in .NET to check what status code a web server replies with to a GET request?

Note that I do not need the body of the response. In fact, if possi

Answer 1

public HttpStatusCode GetHeaders(string url)
    {
        HttpStatusCode result = default(HttpStatusCode);

        var request = HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
        request.Method = "HEAD";
        using (var response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
        {
            if (response != null)
            {
                result = response.StatusCode;
                response.Close();
            }
        }

        return result;
    }