The Django docs say at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.QueryDict.iteritems thatQueryDict.iteritems() uses the same last-value
QueryDict.iteritems()
request.META['QUERY_STRING']
will give the complete query string
or if you want to get the list of values for a given key ex: list of values for status then
request.GET.getlist('status')