cURL Troubles

I'm working off of a slightly modified version of the class found at http://www.zedwood.com/article/125/cpp-libcurl-static-class here:

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/*
	Http.cpp
	part of the libcurl HTTP class written for C++
	based partially on http://www.zedwood.com/article/125/cpp-libcurl-static-class, with many modifications made
*/

#include "Http.h"

using namespace std;

string Http::last_url;
string Http::current_url;

bool Http::use_proxy;
string Http::proxy_ip;
long Http::proxy_port;

long Http::remote_port;

string Http::get(const string &url){
	return request(url, "", false, "");
}

string Http::get(const string &url, string referer){
	return request(url, referer, false, "");
}

string Http::post(const string &url, map<string, string> params){
	string postdata = build_param_string(params);
	
	return request(url, "", true, postdata);
}

string Http::post(const string &url, map<string, string> params, string referer){
	string postdata = build_param_string(params);
	
	return request(url, referer, true, postdata);
}

string Http::get_current_url(){
	return current_url;
}

string Http::get_last_url(){
	return last_url;
}

void Http::set_proxy(string ip, long port){
	use_proxy = true;
	proxy_ip = ip;
	proxy_port = port;
}

void Http::clear_proxy(){
	use_proxy = false;
}

void Http::set_remote_port(long port){
	remote_port = port;
}

string Http::request(const string &url, string referer, bool post, const string &params){
	static string buffer = "";
	static char error_buffer[CURL_ERROR_SIZE];
	error_buffer[0] = 0;
	
	CURL *curl;
	CURLcode result;
	
	curl = curl_easy_init();
	
	if(curl){
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, error_buffer);
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1);
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, Http::writer);
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &(buffer));
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, ".cookies.cj");
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, ".cookies.cj");
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,  2);
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
		
		if(post){
			curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
			curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, params.c_str());
		}
		
		if(referer.length()){
			curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, referer.c_str());
		}
		
		if(use_proxy){
			curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, proxy_ip.c_str());
			
			if(proxy_port){
				curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, proxy_port);
			}
		}
		
		if(remote_port){
			curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PORT, remote_port);
		}
		
		result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
		
		curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
		
		if(result == CURLE_OK){
			return buffer;
		}
		else{
			return "error";
		}
	}

	return "error";
}

int Http::writer(char *data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, string *buffer){
	int result = 0;
	
	if(buffer != NULL){
		buffer->append(data, size * nmemb);
		result = size * nmemb;
	}
	
	return result;
}

string Http::urlencode(const string &str){
	string encoded = "";
	
	int max = str.length();
	
	for(int i = 0; i < max; i++){
		if(
			(48 <= str[i] && str[i] <= 57) ||
			(65 <= str[i] && str[i] <= 90) ||
			(97 <= str[i] && str[i] <= 122) ||
			(str[i] == '~' || str[i] == '!' || str[i] == '*' || str[i] == '(' || str[i] == ')' || str[i] == '\'')
		){
			encoded.append(&str[i], 1);
		}
		else{
			encoded.append("%");
			encoded.append(dechex(str[i]));
		}
	}
	
	return encoded;
}

string Http::dechex(char dec){
	char dig1 = (dec&0xF0)>>4;
    char dig2 = (dec&0x0F);
    if ( 0<= dig1 && dig1<= 9) dig1+=48;    //0,48inascii
    if (10<= dig1 && dig1<=15) dig1+=97-10; //a,97inascii
    if ( 0<= dig2 && dig2<= 9) dig2+=48;
    if (10<= dig2 && dig2<=15) dig2+=97-10;

    string r;
    r.append( &dig1, 1);
    r.append( &dig2, 1);
    return r;
}

string Http::build_param_string(map<string, string> params){
	string param_string = "";

	for(map<string, string>::iterator it = params.begin(); it != params.end(); it++){
		param_string += it->first + "=" + urlencode(it->second) + "&";
	}
	
	param_string = param_string.substr(0, param_string.length() - 1);
	
	return param_string;
}


The issue I'm having is that when I do a request (get), I'm getting back all of the data from past requests as well, and I'm not too sure why. Any insight would be helpful, thanks.
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