diff --git a/R/asyncvaried.R b/R/asyncvaried.R
index dba3630..b0107db 100644
--- a/R/asyncvaried.R
+++ b/R/asyncvaried.R
@@ -285,55 +285,55 @@ AsyncVaried <- R6::R6Class(
       multi_res <- list()
 
       make_request <- function(i) {
-        w <- reqs[[i]]$payload
-        h <- w$url$handle
-        curl::handle_setopt(h, .list = w$options)
-        if (!is.null(w$fields)) {
-          curl::handle_setform(h, .list = w$fields)
+        request <- reqs[[i]]$payload
+        handle <- request$url$handle
+        curl::handle_setopt(handle, .list = request$options)
+        if (!is.null(request$fields)) {
+          curl::handle_setform(handle, .list = request$fields)
         }
-        curl::handle_setheaders(h, .list = w$headers)
+        curl::handle_setheaders(handle, .list = request$headers)
 
-        if ("retry_options" %in% names(w)) {
-          do.call(retry, c(list(i=i, handle=h), w$retry_options))
-        } else if (is.null(w$disk) && is.null(w$stream)) {
+        if ("retry_options" %in% names(request)) {
+          do.call(retry, c(list(i=i, handle=handle), request$retry_options))
+        } else if (is.null(request$disk) && is.null(request$stream)) {
           if (crul_opts$mock) {
             check_for_package("webmockr")
             adap <- webmockr::CrulAdapter$new()
-            multi_res[[i]] <<- adap$handle_request(w)
+            multi_res[[i]] <<- adap$handle_request(request)
           } else {
             curl::multi_add(
-              handle = h,
+              handle = handle,
               done = function(res) multi_res[[i]] <<- res,
-              fail = function(res) multi_res[[i]] <<- make_async_error(res, w),
+              fail = function(res) multi_res[[i]] <<- make_async_error(res, request),
               pool = crulpool
             )
           }
         } else {
-          if (!is.null(w$disk) && is.null(w$stream)) {
-            stopifnot(inherits(w$disk, "character"))
-            ff <- file(w$disk, open = "wb")
+          if (!is.null(request$disk) && is.null(request$stream)) {
+            stopifnot(inherits(request$disk, "character"))
+            file_con <- file(request$disk, open = "wb")
             curl::multi_add(
-              handle = h,
+              handle = handle,
               done = function(res) {
-                close(ff)
+                close(file_con)
                 multi_res[[i]] <<- res
               },
               fail = function(res) {
-                close(ff)
-                multi_res[[i]] <<- make_async_error(res, w)
+                close(file_con)
+                multi_res[[i]] <<- make_async_error(res, request)
               },
-              data = ff,
+              data = file_con,
               pool = crulpool
             )
-          } else if (is.null(w$disk) && !is.null(w$stream)) {
-            stopifnot(is.function(w$stream))
+          } else if (is.null(request$disk) && !is.null(request$stream)) {
+            stopifnot(is.function(request$stream))
             # assign empty response since stream is a user supplied function
             # to write somewhere of their choosing
-            multi_res[[i]] <<- make_async_error("", w)
+            multi_res[[i]] <<- make_async_error("", request)
             curl::multi_add(
-              handle = h,
-              done = w$stream,
-              fail = function(res) multi_res[[i]] <<- make_async_error(res, w),
+              handle = handle,
+              done = request$stream,
+              fail = function(res) multi_res[[i]] <<- make_async_error(res, request),
               pool = crulpool
             )
           }
@@ -356,10 +356,12 @@ AsyncVaried <- R6::R6Class(
         if (grepl("^ftp://", z$url)) {
           headers <- list()
         } else {
-          hh <- rawToChar(z$headers %||% raw(0))
-          if (nzchar(hh)) {
-            headers <- lapply(curl::parse_headers(hh, multiple = TRUE),
-              head_parse)
+          headers_temp <- rawToChar(z$headers %||% raw(0))
+          if (nzchar(headers_temp)) {
+            headers <- lapply(
+              curl::parse_headers(headers_temp, multiple = TRUE),
+              head_parse
+            )
           } else {
             headers <- list()
           }
diff --git a/R/client.R b/R/client.R
index f94b723..60fd78b 100644
--- a/R/client.R
+++ b/R/client.R
@@ -522,15 +522,15 @@ HttpClient <- R6::R6Class(
       if (grepl("^ftp://", resp$url)) {
         headers <- list()
       } else {
-        hh <- rawToChar(resp$headers %||% raw(0))
-        if (!validEnc(hh)) {
-          Encoding(hh) <- "latin1"
-          if (!validEnc(hh)) stop("Headers aren't encoded in UTF-8 or Latin1")
+        headers_temp <- rawToChar(resp$headers %||% raw(0))
+        if (!validEnc(headers_temp)) {
+          Encoding(headers_temp) <- "latin1"
+          if (!validEnc(headers_temp)) stop("Headers aren't encoded in UTF-8 or Latin1")
         }
-        if (is.null(hh) || nchar(hh) == 0) {
+        if (is.null(headers_temp) || nchar(headers_temp) == 0) {
           headers <- list()
         } else {
-          headers <- lapply(curl::parse_headers(hh, multiple = TRUE),
+          headers <- lapply(curl::parse_headers(headers_temp, multiple = TRUE),
             head_parse)
         }
       }
diff --git a/R/ok.R b/R/ok.R
index 3dfa021..d19c439 100644
--- a/R/ok.R
+++ b/R/ok.R
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ ok.default <- function(x, status=200L, info=TRUE, verb="head",
 #' @export
 ok.character <- function(x, status=200L, info=TRUE, verb="head",
   ua_random=FALSE, ...) {
-  z <- crul::HttpClient$new(x, opts = list(...))
-  ok(z, status, info, verb, ua_random, ...)
+  con <- crul::HttpClient$new(x, opts = list(...))
+  ok(con, status, info, verb, ua_random, ...)
 }
 
 #' @export
@@ -115,15 +115,16 @@ ok.HttpClient <- function(x, status=200L, info=TRUE, verb="head",
   # set ua
   if (ua_random) x$opts$useragent <- sample(agents, size=1)
   for (i in seq_along(status)) {
-    ts <- tryCatch(httpcode::http_code(status[i]), error = function(e) e)
-    if (inherits(ts, "error"))
+    try_status <- tryCatch(
+      httpcode::http_code(status[i]), error = function(e) e)
+    if (inherits(try_status, "error"))
       stop("status [", status[i], "] not in acceptable set")
   }
 
-  w <- tryCatch(x$verb(verb), error = function(e) e)
-  if (inherits(w, "error")) {
-    if (info) message(w$message)
+  try_req <- tryCatch(x$verb(verb), error = function(e) e)
+  if (inherits(try_req, "error")) {
+    if (info) message(try_req$message)
     return(FALSE)
   }
-  w$status_code %in% status
+  try_req$status_code %in% status
 }