diff --git a/mercurial/urllibcompat.py b/mercurial/urllibcompat.py
--- a/mercurial/urllibcompat.py
+++ b/mercurial/urllibcompat.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
         "urlparse",
         "urlunparse",
     ))
+    urlreq._registeralias(urllib.parse, "parse_qs", "parseqs")
     urlreq._registeralias(urllib.parse, "unquote_to_bytes", "unquote")
     import urllib.request
     urlreq._registeraliases(urllib.request, (
@@ -157,6 +158,7 @@
         "urlparse",
         "urlunparse",
     ))
+    urlreq._registeralias(urlparse, "parse_qs", "parseqs")
     urlerr._registeraliases(urllib2, (
         "HTTPError",
         "URLError",
diff --git a/mercurial/wireprotoserver.py b/mercurial/wireprotoserver.py
--- a/mercurial/wireprotoserver.py
+++ b/mercurial/wireprotoserver.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 import abc
-import cgi
 import contextlib
 import struct
 import sys
@@ -134,12 +133,12 @@
         args = util.rapply(pycompat.bytesurl, self._req.form.copy())
         postlen = int(self._req.env.get(r'HTTP_X_HGARGS_POST', 0))
         if postlen:
-            args.update(cgi.parse_qs(
+            args.update(urlreq.parseqs(
                 self._req.read(postlen), keep_blank_values=True))
             return args
 
         argvalue = decodevaluefromheaders(self._req, r'X-HgArg')
-        args.update(cgi.parse_qs(argvalue, keep_blank_values=True))
+        args.update(urlreq.parseqs(argvalue, keep_blank_values=True))
         return args
 
     def forwardpayload(self, fp):