/*
        Webmonkey GET Parsing Module
        Language: JavaScript 1.0
        The parsing of GET queries is fundamental
        to the basic functionality of HTTP/1.0.
        This module parses GET with JavaScript 1.0.
        Source: Webmonkey Code Library
        (http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/javascript/code_library/)
        Author: Patrick Corcoran
        Author Email: patrick@taylor.org
        */


        function createRequestObject() {
            FORM_DATA = new Object();
            // The Object ("Array") where our data will be stored.
            separator = ',';
            // The token used to separate data from multi-select inputs
            query = '' + this.location;
            qu = query
            // Get the current URL so we can parse out the data.
            // Adding a null-string '' forces an implicit type cast
            // from property to string, for NS2 compatibility.
            query = query.substring((query.indexOf('?')) + 1);
            // Keep everything after the question mark '?'.
            if (query.length < 1) { return false; }  // Perhaps we got some bad data?
            keypairs = new Object();
            numKP = 1;
            // Local vars used to store and keep track of name/value pairs
            // as we parse them back into a usable form.
            while (query.indexOf('&') > -1) {
                keypairs[numKP] = query.substring(0, query.indexOf('&'));
                query = query.substring((query.indexOf('&')) + 1);
                numKP++;
                // Split the query string at each '&', storing the left-hand side
                // of the split in a new keypairs[] holder, and chopping the query
                // so that it gets the value of the right-hand string.
            }
            keypairs[numKP] = query;
            // Store what's left in the query string as the final keypairs[] data.<
            for (i in keypairs) {
                keyName = keypairs[i].substring(0, keypairs[i].indexOf('='));
                // Left of '=' is name.
                keyValue = keypairs[i].substring((keypairs[i].indexOf('=')) + 1);
                // Right of '=' is value.
                while (keyValue.indexOf('+') > -1) {
                    keyValue = keyValue.substring(0, keyValue.indexOf('+')) + ' ' + keyValue.substring(keyValue.indexOf('+') + 1);
                    // Replace each '+' in data string with a space.
                }
                keyValue = unescape(keyValue);
                // Unescape non-alphanumerics
                if (FORM_DATA[keyName]) {
                    FORM_DATA[keyName] = FORM_DATA[keyName] + separator + keyValue;
                    // Object already exists, it is probably a multi-select input,
                    // and we need to generate a separator-delimited string
                    // by appending to what we already have stored.
                } else {
                    FORM_DATA[keyName] = keyValue;
                    // Normal case: name gets value.
                }
            }
            return FORM_DATA;
        }
        FORM_DATA = createRequestObject();
        // This is the array/object containing the GET data.
        // Retrieve information with 'FORM_DATA [ key ] = value'.