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Module
Mixin module that provides the following:
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Access to the CGI environment variables as methods. See documentation to the CGI class for a list of these variables. The methods are exposed by removing the leading
HTTP_(if it exists) and downcasing the name. For example,auth_typewill return the environment variableAUTH_TYPE, andacceptwill return the value forHTTP_ACCEPT. -
Access to cookies, including the cookies attribute.
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Access to parameters, including the params attribute, and overloading [] to perform parameter value lookup by key.
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The initialize_query method, for initializing the above mechanisms, handling multipart forms, and allowing the class to be used in “offline” mode.