# if we get called more than once, we want to initialize
    # ourselves from the original query (which may be gone
    # if it was read from STDIN originally.)
    if (defined(@QUERY_PARAM) && !defined($initializer)) {
        foreach (@QUERY_PARAM) {
            $self->param('-name'=>$_,'-value'=>$QUERY_PARAM{$_});
        }
        return;
    }