diff --git a/Request.inc.php b/Request.inc.php
index ccce95f..23b786c 100644
--- a/Request.inc.php
+++ b/Request.inc.php
@@ -1,6 +1,168 @@
 <?php
 
-class Request {
+namespace wellrested;
+
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Request
+ *
+ * A Request instance contains information relating to the current HTTP request
+ * a client sent to the server.
+ *
+ * Since the main use for this class is to provide info about the one specific
+ * request, the class exposes the static getRequest() method for obtaining a
+ * singleton Request instance.
+ *
+ * @package WellRESTed
+ *
+ ******************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+ * @property string body       Entity body of the request
+ * @property array headers     Associative array of HTTP headers
+ * @property string method     HTTP method or verb for the request
+ * @property string path       Path component of the URI for the request
+ * @property string pathParts  Fragments of the path, delimited by slashes
+ * @property array query       Associative array of query parameters
+ */
+ class Request {
+
+    /**
+     * Entity body of the request
+     * @var string
+     */
+    protected $body;
+
+    /**
+     * Associative array of HTTP headers
+     * @var array
+     */
+    protected $headers;
+
+    /**
+     * HTTP method or verb for the request
+     * @var string
+     */
+    protected $method;
+
+    /**
+     * Path component of the URI for the request
+     * @var string
+     */
+    protected $path;
+
+    /**
+     * Array of fragments of the path, delimited by slashes
+     * @var array
+     */
+    protected $pathParts;
+
+    /**
+     * Associative array of query parameters
+     * @var array
+     */
+    protected $query;
+
+    /**
+     * Singleton instance derived from reading info from Apache.
+     * @var Request
+     * @static
+     */
+    static protected $theRequest;
+
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // !Accessors
+
+    public function __get($name) {
+
+        switch ($name) {
+        case 'body':
+            return $this->getBody();
+        case 'headers':
+            return $this->getHeaders();
+        case 'method':
+            return $this->getMethod();
+        case 'path':
+            return $this->getPath();
+        case 'pathParts':
+            return $this->getPathParts();
+        case 'query':
+            return $this->getQuery();
+        default:
+            throw new Exception('Property ' . $name . ' does not exist.');
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    public function getBody() {
+        return $this->body;
+    }
+
+    public function getHeaders() {
+        return $this->headers;
+    }
+
+    public function getMethod() {
+        return $this->method;
+    }
+
+    public function getPath() {
+        return $this->path;
+    }
+
+    public function getPathParts() {
+        return $this->pathParts;
+    }
+
+    public function getQuery() {
+        return $this->query;
+    }
+
+
+    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    /**
+     * Set instance members based on the HTTP request sent to the server.
+     */
+    public function readHttpRequest() {
+
+        $this->body = file_get_contents("php://input");
+
+        $this->headers = apache_request_headers();
+
+        $this->method = $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'];
+
+        $uri = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
+        $this->path = $uri['path'];
+
+        $this->pathParts = explode('/', substr($this->path, 1));
+
+        $this->query = $_GET;
+
+    } // readHttpRequest()
+
+    /**
+     * Return a reference to the singleton instance of the Request derived
+     * from the server's information about the request sent to the script.
+     *
+     * @return Request
+     * @static
+     */
+    static public function getRequest() {
+
+        if (!isset(self::$theRequest)) {
+
+            $klass = __CLASS__;
+            $request = new $klass();
+            $request->readHttpRequest();
+
+            self::$theRequest = $request;
+
+        }
+
+        return self::$theRequest;
+
+    } // getRequest()
 
 }
 
diff --git a/Response.inc.php b/Response.inc.php
index f660683..ecfa30c 100644
--- a/Response.inc.php
+++ b/Response.inc.php
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 
+namespace wellrested;
+
 class Response {
 
 }