diff --git a/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerDataRequest.h b/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerDataRequest.h
index 8a224a2..02b078f 100644
--- a/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerDataRequest.h
+++ b/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerDataRequest.h
@@ -30,3 +30,8 @@
 @interface GCDWebServerDataRequest : GCDWebServerRequest
 @property(nonatomic, readonly) NSData* data;
 @end
+
+@interface GCDWebServerDataRequest (Extensions)
+@property(nonatomic, readonly) NSString* text;  // Text encoding is extracted from Content-Type or defaults to UTF-8 - Returns nil on error
+@property(nonatomic, readonly) id jsonObject;  // Returns nil on error
+@end
diff --git a/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerDataRequest.m b/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerDataRequest.m
index cfb6aaa..40ca12e 100644
--- a/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerDataRequest.m
+++ b/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerDataRequest.m
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
 @interface GCDWebServerDataRequest () {
 @private
   NSMutableData* _data;
+  
+  NSString* _text;
+  id _jsonObject;
 }
 @end
 
@@ -39,6 +42,8 @@
 
 - (void)dealloc {
   ARC_RELEASE(_data);
+  ARC_RELEASE(_text);
+  ARC_RELEASE(_jsonObject);
   
   ARC_DEALLOC(super);
 }
@@ -69,3 +74,30 @@
 }
 
 @end
+
+@implementation GCDWebServerDataRequest (Extensions)
+
+- (NSString*)text {
+  if (_text == nil) {
+    if ([self.contentType hasPrefix:@"text/"]) {
+      NSString* charset = GCDWebServerExtractHeaderParameter(self.contentType, @"charset");
+      _text = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:self.data encoding:GCDWebServerStringEncodingFromCharset(charset)];
+    } else {
+      DNOT_REACHED();
+    }
+  }
+  return _text;
+}
+
+- (id)jsonObject {
+  if (_jsonObject == nil) {
+    if ([self.contentType isEqualToString:@"application/json"] || [self.contentType isEqualToString:@"text/json"] || [self.contentType isEqualToString:@"text/javascript"]) {
+      _jsonObject = ARC_RETAIN([NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_data options:0 error:NULL]);
+    } else {
+      DNOT_REACHED();
+    }
+  }
+  return _jsonObject;
+}
+
+@end
diff --git a/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerURLEncodedFormRequest.h b/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerURLEncodedFormRequest.h
index 8fe6567..9615e8e 100644
--- a/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerURLEncodedFormRequest.h
+++ b/CGDWebServer/GCDWebServerURLEncodedFormRequest.h
@@ -28,6 +28,6 @@
 #import "GCDWebServerDataRequest.h"
 
 @interface GCDWebServerURLEncodedFormRequest : GCDWebServerDataRequest
-@property(nonatomic, readonly) NSDictionary* arguments;
+@property(nonatomic, readonly) NSDictionary* arguments;  // Text encoding is extracted from Content-Type or defaults to UTF-8
 + (NSString*)mimeType;
 @end