sub save_request {
    my($self) = @_;
    # We're going to play with the package globals now so that if we get called
    # again, we initialize ourselves in exactly the same way.  This allows
    # us to have several of these objects.
    @QUERY_PARAM = $self->param; # save list of parameters
    foreach (@QUERY_PARAM) {
      next unless defined $_;
      $QUERY_PARAM{$_}=$self->{$_};
    }
    $QUERY_CHARSET = $self->charset;
    %QUERY_FIELDNAMES = %{$self->{'.fieldnames'}};
}

sub parse_params {
    my($self,$tosplit) = @_;
    my(@pairs) = split(/[&;]/,$tosplit);
    my($param,$value);
    foreach (@pairs) {
	($param,$value) = split('=',$_,2);
	next unless defined $param;
	next if $NO_UNDEF_PARAMS and not defined $value;
	$value = '' unless defined $value;
	$param = unescape($param);
	$value = unescape($value);
	$self->add_parameter($param);
	push (@{$self->{$param}},$value);
    }
}

sub add_parameter {
    my($self,$param)=@_;
    return unless defined $param;
    push (@{$self->{'.parameters'}},$param) 
	unless defined($self->{$param});
}

sub all_parameters {
    my $self = shift;
    return () unless defined($self) && $self->{'.parameters'};
    return () unless @{$self->{'.parameters'}};
    return @{$self->{'.parameters'}};
}

# put a filehandle into binary mode (DOS)
sub binmode {
    return unless defined($_[1]) && defined fileno($_[1]);
    CORE::binmode($_[1]);
}

sub _make_tag_func {
    my ($self,$tagname) = @_;
    my $func = qq(
	sub $tagname {
         my (\$q,\$a,\@rest) = self_or_default(\@_);
         my(\$attr) = '';
	 if (ref(\$a) && ref(\$a) eq 'HASH') {
	    my(\@attr) = make_attributes(\$a,\$q->{'escape'});
	    \$attr = " \@attr" if \@attr;
	  } else {
	    unshift \@rest,\$a if defined \$a;
	  }
	);
    if ($tagname=~/start_(\w+)/i) {
	$func .= qq! return "<\L$1\E\$attr>";} !;
    } elsif ($tagname=~/end_(\w+)/i) {
	$func .= qq! return "<\L/$1\E>"; } !;
    } else {
	$func .= qq#
	    return \$XHTML ? "\L<$tagname\E\$attr />" : "\L<$tagname\E\$attr>" unless \@rest;
	    my(\$tag,\$untag) = ("\L<$tagname\E\$attr>","\L</$tagname>\E");
	    my \@result = map { "\$tag\$_\$untag" } 
                              (ref(\$rest[0]) eq 'ARRAY') ? \@{\$rest[0]} : "\@rest";
	    return "\@result";
            }#;
    }
return $func;
}

sub AUTOLOAD {
    print STDERR "CGI::AUTOLOAD for $AUTOLOAD\n" if $CGI::AUTOLOAD_DEBUG;
    my $func = &_compile;
    goto &$func;
}

sub _compile {
    my($func) = $AUTOLOAD;
    my($pack,$func_name);
    {
	local($1,$2); # this fixes an obscure variable suicide problem.
	$func=~/(.+)::([^:]+)$/;
	($pack,$func_name) = ($1,$2);
	$pack=~s/::SUPER$//;	# fix another obscure problem
	$pack = ${"$pack\:\:AutoloadClass"} || $CGI::DefaultClass
	    unless defined(${"$pack\:\:AUTOLOADED_ROUTINES"});

        my($sub) = \%{"$pack\:\:SUBS"};
        unless (%$sub) {
	   my($auto) = \${"$pack\:\:AUTOLOADED_ROUTINES"};
	   local ($@,$!);