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 Accessing Request Data
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-For web applications it's crucial to react to the data a client sent to
+For web applications it's crucial to react to the data a client sends to
 the server.  In Flask this information is provided by the global
 :class:`~flask.request` object.  If you have some experience with Python
 you might be wondering how that object can be global and how Flask