diff --git a/actix/src/auth.rs b/actix/src/auth.rs
index fd8d8b8..c6ab4bd 100644
--- a/actix/src/auth.rs
+++ b/actix/src/auth.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 use actix_session::Session;
 use std::{env, time::SystemTime};
-use actix_web::{HttpRequest};
+use actix_web::HttpRequest;
 
 // API key generation and scoring
 use passwords::{PasswordGenerator, scorer, analyzer};
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ pub fn api_header(req: &HttpRequest) -> Option<&str> {
 // Determine whether the inputted API key is sufficiently secure
 pub fn is_key_secure() -> bool {
     let score = scorer::score(&analyzer::analyze(env::var("api_key").unwrap()));
-    if score < 90.0 { false } else { true }
+    score >= 90.0
 }
 
 // Validate a given password
diff --git a/actix/src/main.rs b/actix/src/main.rs
index ef9a618..79dcfa7 100644
--- a/actix/src/main.rs
+++ b/actix/src/main.rs
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
         .filter(|s| !s.trim().is_empty())
         .unwrap_or(String::from("urls.sqlite"));
 
-
     let port = env::var("port")
         .unwrap_or(String::from("4567"))
         .parse::<u16>()
diff --git a/actix/src/services.rs b/actix/src/services.rs
index fe66432..4b4a573 100644
--- a/actix/src/services.rs
+++ b/actix/src/services.rs
@@ -158,11 +158,8 @@ pub async fn link_handler(
 // Handle login
 #[post("/api/login")]
 pub async fn login(req: String, session: Session) -> HttpResponse {
-    // Someone's API may be listening for the plain HTML body response of "Correct password!"
-    // rather than a 200 OK HTTP response. Because of that, a check is performed to see whether
-    // the api_key environment variable is set. If it is set, then it is assumed the user will expect a JSON response for all API routes.
-    // *If this is not a concern, this can be removed.*
-    if let Ok(_) = env::var("api_key") {
+    // Keep this function backwards compatible
+    if env::var("api_key").is_ok() {
         if let Ok(password) = env::var("password") {
             if password != req {
                 eprintln!("Failed login attempt!");
diff --git a/actix/src/utils.rs b/actix/src/utils.rs
index 506e5cf..c596603 100644
--- a/actix/src/utils.rs
+++ b/actix/src/utils.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ struct URLPair {
 }
 
 // Define JSON struct for response
-// Named "ReturnResponse" rather than "Response" because of the previous import.
 #[derive(Serialize)]
 pub struct Response {
     pub(crate) success: bool,
@@ -30,31 +29,26 @@ pub struct Response {
 // If the api_key environment variable eists
 pub fn is_api_ok(http: HttpRequest) -> Response {
     // If the api_key environment variable exists
-    if let Ok(_) = env::var("api_key") {
+    if env::var("api_key").is_ok() {
         // If the header exists
         if let Some(header) = auth::api_header(&http) {
             // If the header is correct
             if auth::validate_key(header.to_string()) {
-                let result = Response { success: true, error: false, reason: "".to_string(), pass: false };
-                result
+                Response { success: true, error: false, reason: "".to_string(), pass: false }
             } else {
-                let result = Response { success: false, error: true, reason: "Incorrect API key".to_string(), pass: false };
-                result
+                Response { success: false, error: true, reason: "Incorrect API key".to_string(), pass: false }
             }
         // The header may not exist when the user logs in through the web interface, so allow a request with no header.
         // Further authentication checks will be conducted in services.rs
         } else {
-            let result = Response { success: false, error: false, reason: "Chhoto-Api-Key header not found".to_string(), pass: true };
-            result
+            Response { success: false, error: false, reason: "Chhoto-Api-Key header not found".to_string(), pass: true }
         }
     } else {
         // If the API key isn't set, but an API Key header is provided
-        if let Some(_) = auth::api_header(&http) {
-            let result = Response {success: false, error: true, reason: "API key access was attempted, but no API key is configured".to_string(), pass: false};
-            result
+        if auth::api_header(&http).is_some() {
+            Response {success: false, error: true, reason: "API key access was attempted, but no API key is configured".to_string(), pass: false}
         } else {
-            let result = Response {success: false, error: false, reason: "".to_string(), pass: true};
-            result
+            Response {success: false, error: false, reason: "".to_string(), pass: true}
         }
     }
 }