function createRequestObjectFromUrl() {
  
  		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 = (new String(keypairs[i].substring(0,keypairs[i].indexOf('=')))).toLowerCase();
      				// Left of '=' is name.
    				//keyValue = keypairs[i].substring((keypairs[i].indexOf('=')) + 1);
    				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;
	}