diff --git a/src/HTTPParser.py b/src/HTTPParser.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bbced43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/HTTPParser.py
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+from mimetools import Message
+from StringIO import StringIO
+
+class HTTPParser:
+	def __init__(self):
+		self.requestLine = None
+		self.headersAlone = None
+		self.headers = None
+		self.host = None
+		self.contentType = None
+		self.contentLen = None
+		self.operation = None
+		self.URI = None
+
+	def parser(self,data):
+		self.requestLine, self.headersAlone = data.split('\n', 1)
+		self.headers = Message(StringIO(self.headersAlone))
+
+		if 'host' in self.headers.keys():
+			self.host = self.headers['host']
+
+		if 'content-type' in self.headers.keys():
+			self.contentType = self.headers['content-type']
+
+		if 'content-length' in self.headers.keys():
+			self.contentLen = int(self.headers['content-length'])
+
+		if (not self.requestLine == None or not self.requestLine == ''):
+			self.operation = self.requestLine.split('/', 1)[0]
+			self.URI = self.requestLine.split('/', 1)[1]
+
+	def getHeaderLine(self):
+		return self.headersAlone
+
+	def getRequestLine(self):
+		return self.requestLine
+
+	def getHeaderParsed(self):
+		return self.headers
+
+	def getHost(self):
+		return self.host
+
+	def getContentType(self):
+		return self.contentType
+
+	def getContentLen(self):
+		return self.contentLen
+
+	def getRequestOP(self):
+		return self.operation
+
+	def getURI(self):
+		return self.URI
diff --git a/src/ogClient.py b/src/ogClient.py
index 296c03c..b54d736 100644
--- a/src/ogClient.py
+++ b/src/ogClient.py
@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ import errno
 import select
 import socket
 import time
-import httplib
-from mimetools import Message
-from StringIO import StringIO
+
+from HTTPParser import *
 from enum import Enum
 
 class State(Enum):
@@ -66,8 +65,8 @@ class ogClient:
 			self.sock.close()
 			self.connect()
 
-		print "received " + data
 		self.data = self.data + data
+		httpparser = HTTPParser()
 
 		if not self.trailer:
 			if self.data.find("\r\n") > 0:
@@ -75,18 +74,13 @@ class ogClient:
 				request_line, headers_alone = self.data.split('\n', 1)
 				headers = Message(StringIO(headers_alone))
 
-				print "DEBUG: \r\n trailer received"
-				print "DEBUG: HTTP keys are " + str(headers.keys())
-
 				if 'content-length' in headers.keys():
 					self.content_len = int(headers['content-length'])
 
 				self.trailer = True
 
 		if self.trailer and len(self.data) >= self.content_len:
-			#
-			# TODO: handle request here
-			#
+			httpparser.parser(self.data)
 
 			self.sock.send("HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n\r\n")
 
@@ -94,4 +88,3 @@ class ogClient:
 			self.data = ""
 			self.content_len = 0
 			self.trailer = False
-			print "DEBUG: request has been processed!"