+### `HTTPRequest` definition
+
+Used by `HTTPApiTable.fetch` and `HTTPApiTable.fetch_async`.
+
+ {
+ url = "http://example.org",
+
+ timeout = 10,
+ -- Timeout for connection in seconds. Default is 3 seconds.
+
+ post_data = "Raw POST request data string" OR {field1 = "data1", field2 = "data2"},
+ -- Optional, if specified a POST request with post_data is performed.
+ -- Accepts both a string and a table. If a table is specified, encodes
+ -- table as x-www-form-urlencoded key-value pairs.
+ -- If post_data is not specified, a GET request is performed instead.
+
+ user_agent = "ExampleUserAgent",
+ -- Optional, if specified replaces the default minetest user agent with
+ -- given string
+
+ extra_headers = { "Accept-Language: en-us", "Accept-Charset: utf-8" },
+ -- Optional, if specified adds additional headers to the HTTP request.
+ -- You must make sure that the header strings follow HTTP specification
+ -- ("Key: Value").
+
+ multipart = boolean
+ -- Optional, if true performs a multipart HTTP request.
+ -- Default is false.
+ }
+
+### `HTTPRequestResult` definition
+
+Passed to `HTTPApiTable.fetch` callback. Returned by
+`HTTPApiTable.fetch_async_get`.
+
+ {
+ completed = true,
+ -- If true, the request has finished (either succeeded, failed or timed
+ -- out)
+
+ succeeded = true,
+ -- If true, the request was successful
+
+ timeout = false,
+ -- If true, the request timed out
+
+ code = 200,
+ -- HTTP status code
+
+ data = "response"
+ }
+
+