diff --git a/sanic/request.py b/sanic/request.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..574d4d07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sanic/request.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+class Request:
+    __slots__ = ('protocol', 'url', 'headers', 'version', 'method', 'query_string', 'body', 'parsed_json', 'parsed_args')
+
+    def __init__(self, protocol, url, headers, version, method):
+        self.protocol = protocol
+        self.url = url
+        self.headers = headers
+        self.version = version
+        self.method = method
+
+        # Capture query string
+        query_string_position = self.url.find("?")
+        if query_string_position != -1:
+            self.query_string = self.url[query_string_position+1:]
+            self.url = self.url[:query_string_position]
+        else:
+            self.query_string = None
+
+        # Init but do not inhale
+        self.body = None
+        self.parsed_json = None
+        self.parsed_args = None
+
+    @property
+    def json(self):
+        if not self.parsed_json:
+            if not self.body:
+                raise ValueError("No body to parse")
+            self.parsed_json = json_loads(self.body)
+
+        return self.parsed_json 
+
+    @property
+    def args(self):
+        if self.parsed_args is None:
+            if self.query_string:
+                parsed_query_string = parse_qs(self.query_string).items()
+                self.parsed_args = {k:[_v.decode('utf-8') for _v in v] if len(v)>1 else v[0].decode('utf-8') for k,v in parsed_query_string}
+            else:
+                self.parsed_args = {}
+
+        return self.parsed_args 
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diff --git a/sanic/router.py b/sanic/router.py
index 51abd880..1266ef70 100644
--- a/sanic/router.py
+++ b/sanic/router.py
@@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ class Router():
 		self.routes[uri] = handler
 
 	def get(self, request):
-		uri_string = request.url.decode('utf-8')
-		handler = self.routes.get(uri_string)
+		handler = self.routes.get(request.url)
 		if handler:
 			return handler
 		else:
-			raise NotFound("Requested URL {} not found".format(uri_string))
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+			raise NotFound("Requested URL {} not found".format(request.url))
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diff --git a/sanic/server.py b/sanic/server.py
index 0ca92a13..658cfb76 100644
--- a/sanic/server.py
+++ b/sanic/server.py
@@ -22,51 +22,10 @@ from .log import log
 from .config import LOGO
 from .exceptions import ServerError
 from .response import HTTPResponse
+from .request import Request
 
 PRINT = 0
 
-class Request:
-    __slots__ = ('protocol', 'url', 'headers', 'version', 'method', 'query_string', 'body', 'parsed_json', 'parsed_args')
-
-    def __init__(self, protocol, url, headers, version, method):
-        self.protocol = protocol
-        self.url = url
-        self.headers = headers
-        self.version = version
-        self.method = method
-
-        # Capture query string
-        query_string_position = self.url.find(b"?")
-        if query_string_position != -1:
-            self.query_string = self.url[query_string_position+1:]
-            self.url = self.url[:query_string_position]
-        else:
-            self.query_string = None
-
-        # Init but do not inhale
-        self.body = None
-        self.parsed_json = None
-        self.parsed_args = None
-
-    @property
-    def json(self):
-        if not self.parsed_json:
-            if not self.body:
-                raise ValueError("No body to parse")
-            self.parsed_json = json_loads(self.body)
-
-        return self.parsed_json 
-
-    @property
-    def args(self):
-        if self.parsed_args is None:
-            if self.query_string:
-                self.parsed_args = {k:v if len(v)>1 else v[0] for k,v in parse_qs(self.query_string).items()}
-            else:
-                self.parsed_args = {}
-
-        return self.parsed_args 
-
 class HttpProtocol(asyncio.Protocol):
 
     __slots__ = ('loop',
@@ -124,12 +83,12 @@ class HttpProtocol(asyncio.Protocol):
         self.url = url
 
     def on_header(self, name, value):
-        self.headers.append((name, value))
+        self.headers.append((name, value.decode('utf-8')))
 
     def on_headers_complete(self):
         self.request = Request(
             protocol=self, 
-            url=self.url, 
+            url=self.url.decode('utf-8'), 
             headers=dict(self.headers),
             version=self.parser.get_http_version(),
             method=self.parser.get_method()