diff --git a/server_http.hpp b/server_http.hpp
index c65543df..010d5764 100644
--- a/server_http.hpp
+++ b/server_http.hpp
@@ -53,6 +53,26 @@ class case_insensitive_hash {
 #endif
 
 namespace SimpleWeb {
+    class RequestBase {
+    public:
+            //Based on http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/doc/html/unordered/hash_equality.html
+            class iequal_to {
+            public:
+              bool operator()(const std::string &key1, const std::string &key2) const {
+                return boost::algorithm::iequals(key1, key2);
+              }
+            };
+            class ihash {
+            public:
+              size_t operator()(const std::string &key) const {
+                std::size_t seed=0;
+                for(auto &c: key)
+                  boost::hash_combine(seed, std::tolower(c));
+                return seed;
+              }
+            };
+    };
+
     template <class socket_type>
     class Server;
     
@@ -92,9 +112,10 @@ namespace SimpleWeb {
             Content(boost::asio::streambuf &streambuf): std::istream(&streambuf), streambuf(streambuf) {}
         };
         
-        class Request {
+        class Request: public RequestBase {
             friend class ServerBase<socket_type>;
             friend class Server<socket_type>;
+            
         public:
             std::string method, path, http_version;
 
@@ -145,8 +166,8 @@ namespace SimpleWeb {
         class regex_orderable : public REGEX_NS::regex {
             std::string str;
         public:
-            regex_orderable(const char *regex_cstr) : std::regex(regex_cstr), str(regex_cstr) {}
-            regex_orderable(const std::string &regex_str) : std::regex(regex_str), str(regex_str) {}
+            regex_orderable(const char *regex_cstr) : REGEX_NS::regex(regex_cstr), str(regex_cstr) {}
+            regex_orderable(const std::string &regex_str) : REGEX_NS::regex(regex_str), str(regex_str) {}
             bool operator<(const regex_orderable &rhs) const {
                 return str<rhs.str;
             }