    """
    This module defines a subClass of the standard python cgi.FieldStorage class with an extra method that will allow a FieldStorage to parse a query string even in a POST request.
    """

    import cgi, os, urllib, string

    class FieldStorage(cgi.FieldStorage):

        def __init__(self, fp=None, headers=None, outerboundary="",
                     environ=os.environ, keep_blank_values=0, strict_parsing=0):
            self._environ = environ
            self._strict_parsing = strict_parsing
            self._keep_blank_values = keep_blank_values
            cgi.FieldStorage.__init__(self, fp, headers, outerboundary, environ, keep_blank_values, strict_parsing)

        def parse_qs(self):
            """
            Explicitly parse the query string, even if it's a POST request
            """
            self._method = string.upper(self._environ['REQUEST_METHOD'])
            if self._method == "GET" or  self._method == "HEAD":
    ##          print __file__, "bailing on GET or HEAD request"
                return  #bail because cgi.FieldStorage already did this
            self._qs = self._environ.get('QUERY_STRING', None)
            if not self._qs:
    ##          print __file__, "bailing on no query_string"
                return  ##bail if no query string

            name_value_pairs = string.splitfields(self._qs, '&')
            dict = {}
            for name_value in name_value_pairs:
                nv = string.splitfields(name_value, '=')
                if len(nv) != 2:
                    if self._strict_parsing:
                        raise ValueError, "bad query field: %s" % `name_value`
                    continue
                name = urllib.unquote(string.replace(nv[0], '+', ' '))
                value = urllib.unquote(string.replace(nv[1], '+', ' '))
                if len(value) or self._keep_blank_values:
                    if dict.has_key (name):
                        dict[name].append(value)
                        ##print "appending"
                    else:
                        dict[name] = [value]
                        ##print "no append"

            # Only append values that aren't already in the FieldStorage's keys;
            # This makes POSTed vars override vars on the query string
            if not self.list:
                # This makes sure self.keys() are available, even
                # when valid POST data wasn't encountered.
                self.list = []
            keys = self.keys()
            for key, values in dict.items():
                if key not in keys:
                    for value in values:
                        self.list.append(cgi.MiniFieldStorage(key,value))
    ##                  print "adding %s=%s" % (str(key),str(value))