diff --git a/json-api/src/http.rs b/json-api/src/http.rs
index 924db17..5962508 100644
--- a/json-api/src/http.rs
+++ b/json-api/src/http.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ use hyper::Body;
 use hyper::body::to_bytes;
 
 use std::u8;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
 
 const APP_JSON_HEADER: &'static str = "application/json";
 const CONTENT_TYPE: &'static str = "Content-Type";
@@ -29,9 +30,31 @@ pub async fn parse_json_params(body_raw: &mut Body) -> Result<Value, serde_json:
     Ok(values)
 }
 
+pub fn parse_query_string<'qs>(string: &'qs str) 
+        -> HashMap<&str, &str> {
+    
+    let mut map: HashMap<&str, &str> = HashMap::new();
+
+    // get pairs of [key1=value1, key2=value2, ...]
+    for pair in string.split('&') {
+
+        let kv: Vec<&str> = pair.split('=').collect();
+
+        match (kv.get(0), kv.get(1)) {
+            // only if the format is some_key=some_value do we actually care about it
+            (Some(key), Some(value)) => {
+                map.insert(key, value);
+            },
+            // ignore all non-pairs
+            _ => continue
+        };
+    }
+    return map;
+}
+
 #[inline]
 pub fn extract_uid(values: &Value) -> u64 {
     // pulling 'id' from user params is safe because the 
     // auth modules guarantees this to be there already
     values.get("id").unwrap().as_u64().unwrap()
-}
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+}