diff --git a/vlib/net/http/http.v b/vlib/net/http/http.v
index 0d940cf8a1..4f039b9b20 100644
--- a/vlib/net/http/http.v
+++ b/vlib/net/http/http.v
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ pub fn get(url string) ?Response {
 pub fn post(url string, data string) ?Response {
 	return fetch_with_method(.post, url,
 		data: data
-		header: new_header({key: .content_type, value: http.content_type_default})
+		header: new_header(key: .content_type, value: http.content_type_default)
 	)
 }
 
@@ -55,14 +55,14 @@ pub fn post(url string, data string) ?Response {
 pub fn post_json(url string, data string) ?Response {
 	return fetch_with_method(.post, url,
 		data: data
-		header: new_header({key: .content_type, value: 'application/json'})
+		header: new_header(key: .content_type, value: 'application/json')
 	)
 }
 
 // post_form sends a POST HTTP request to the URL with X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED data
 pub fn post_form(url string, data map[string]string) ?Response {
 	return fetch_with_method(.post, url,
-		header: new_header({key: .content_type, value: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'})
+		header: new_header(key: .content_type, value: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
 		data: url_encode_form_data(data)
 	)
 }
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ pub fn post_form(url string, data map[string]string) ?Response {
 pub fn put(url string, data string) ?Response {
 	return fetch_with_method(.put, url,
 		data: data
-		header: new_header({key: .content_type, value: http.content_type_default})
+		header: new_header(key: .content_type, value: http.content_type_default)
 	)
 }
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ pub fn put(url string, data string) ?Response {
 pub fn patch(url string, data string) ?Response {
 	return fetch_with_method(.patch, url,
 		data: data
-		header: new_header({key: .content_type, value: http.content_type_default})
+		header: new_header(key: .content_type, value: http.content_type_default)
 	)
 }
 
@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ pub fn fetch(_url string, config FetchConfig) ?Response {
 		header: config.header
 		cookies: config.cookies
 		user_agent: config.user_agent
-		ws_func: 0
 		user_ptr: 0
 		verbose: config.verbose
 	}
diff --git a/vlib/net/http/request.v b/vlib/net/http/request.v
index c8a1ede53e..f371fbbc70 100644
--- a/vlib/net/http/request.v
+++ b/vlib/net/http/request.v
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ pub mut:
 	user_agent string = 'v.http'
 	verbose    bool
 	user_ptr   voidptr
-	ws_func    voidptr
 }
 
 fn (mut req Request) free() {
@@ -47,8 +46,8 @@ pub fn (req &Request) do() ?Response {
 	mut resp := Response{}
 	mut no_redirects := 0
 	for {
-		if no_redirects == http.max_redirects {
-			return error('http.request.do: maximum number of redirects reached ($http.max_redirects)')
+		if no_redirects == max_redirects {
+			return error('http.request.do: maximum number of redirects reached ($max_redirects)')
 		}
 		qresp := req.method_and_url_to_response(req.method, rurl) ?
 		resp = qresp
@@ -256,7 +255,6 @@ struct MultiplePathAttributesError {
 	code int
 }
 
-
 fn parse_multipart_form(body string, boundary string) (map[string]string, map[string][]FileData) {
 	sections := body.split(boundary)
 	fields := sections[1..sections.len - 1]