Curl getting html tags

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I am making a script in which i wana use curl to download a web page and check status.But problem is when i use curl in linux command line it downlaod htlm tags.How can we ignore these tage any idea.

2

try.. and get header response

curl -i -L <site>
3

Its not working see.

curl -i -L www.google.com
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=74fd4a23865c9ff4:TM=1248948511:LM=1248948511:S=bEeUX29ZRqM_haw6; expires=Sat, 30-Jul-2011 10:08:31 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:08:31 GMT
Server: gws
Content-Length: 222

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:08:32 GMT
Expires: -1
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=de293263683c9781:TM=1248948512:LM=1248948512:S=Z5H05j-jE0eh6N3s; expires=Sat, 30-Jul-2011 10:08:32 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com.pk
Server: gws
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

<!doctype html><html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Google</title><script>window.google={kEI:"IHFxSuKME4KMwgOFjt2sDA",kEXPI:"17259,20760,21311,21341",kCSIE:"17259,20760,21311,21341",kCSI:{e:"17259,20760,21311,21341",ei:"IHFxSuKME4KMwgOFjt2sDA"},kHL:"en"};

window.google.sn="webhp";window.google.timers={load:{t:{start:(new Date).getTime()}}};try{window.google.pt=window.gtbExternal&&window.gtbExternal.pageT()||window.external&&window.external.pageT}catch(b){}
window.google.jsrt_kill=1;
var _gjwl=location;function _gjuc(){var e=_gjwl.href.inde