You can, but you may wish to change your consuming code to take in some sort of HttpWebRequest factory, or (better yet) use an interface or class abstraction for requests and responses. That way you can plug in the Mocked factory for testing.
I wrote a set of interfaces and adapters precisely for this purpose a few years ago.
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