diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index 5c25c2a0c..589bf481c 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ const http = require('http');
 const https = require('https');
 const path = require('path');
 const util = require('util');
-const { Readable } = require('stream');
 
 // cli/fs related library imports
 const open = require('open');
@@ -45,7 +44,20 @@ const basicAuthMiddleware = require('./src/middleware/basicAuthMiddleware');
 const { jsonParser, urlencodedParser } = require('./src/express-common.js');
 const contentManager = require('./src/endpoints/content-manager');
 const { readSecret, migrateSecrets, SECRET_KEYS } = require('./src/endpoints/secrets');
-const { delay, getVersion, getConfigValue, color, uuidv4, tryParse, clientRelativePath, removeFileExtension, generateTimestamp, removeOldBackups, getImages } = require('./src/util');
+const {
+    delay,
+    getVersion,
+    getConfigValue,
+    color,
+    uuidv4,
+    tryParse,
+    clientRelativePath,
+    removeFileExtension,
+    generateTimestamp,
+    removeOldBackups,
+    getImages,
+    forwardFetchResponse,
+} = require('./src/util');
 const { ensureThumbnailCache } = require('./src/endpoints/thumbnails');
 const { getTokenizerModel, getTiktokenTokenizer, loadTokenizers, TEXT_COMPLETION_MODELS, getSentencepiceTokenizer, sentencepieceTokenizers } = require('./src/endpoints/tokenizers');
 const { convertClaudePrompt } = require('./src/chat-completion');
@@ -307,9 +319,7 @@ if (getConfigValue('enableCorsProxy', false) || cliArguments.corsProxy) {
             });
 
             // Copy over relevant response params to the proxy response
-            res.statusCode = response.status;
-            res.statusMessage = response.statusText;
-            response.body.pipe(res);
+            forwardFetchResponse(response, res);
 
         } catch (error) {
             res.status(500).send('Error occurred while trying to proxy to: ' + url + ' ' + error);
@@ -457,18 +467,9 @@ app.post('/generate', jsonParser, async function (request, response_generate) {
             const response = await fetch(url, { method: 'POST', timeout: 0, ...args });
 
             if (request.body.streaming) {
-                request.socket.on('close', function () {
-                    if (response.body instanceof Readable) response.body.destroy(); // Close the remote stream
-                    response_generate.end(); // End the Express response
-                });
-
-                response.body.on('end', function () {
-                    console.log('Streaming request finished');
-                    response_generate.end();
-                });
-
                 // Pipe remote SSE stream to Express response
-                return response.body.pipe(response_generate);
+                forwardFetchResponse(response, response_generate);
+                return;
             } else {
                 if (!response.ok) {
                     const errorText = await response.text();
@@ -666,17 +667,7 @@ app.post('/api/textgenerationwebui/generate', jsonParser, async function (reques
         if (request.body.stream) {
             const completionsStream = await fetch(url, args);
             // Pipe remote SSE stream to Express response
-            completionsStream.body.pipe(response_generate);
-
-            request.socket.on('close', function () {
-                if (completionsStream.body instanceof Readable) completionsStream.body.destroy(); // Close the remote stream
-                response_generate.end(); // End the Express response
-            });
-
-            completionsStream.body.on('end', function () {
-                console.log('Streaming request finished');
-                response_generate.end();
-            });
+            forwardFetchResponse(completionsStream, response_generate);
         }
         else {
             const completionsReply = await fetch(url, args);
@@ -1427,17 +1418,7 @@ async function sendClaudeRequest(request, response) {
 
         if (request.body.stream) {
             // Pipe remote SSE stream to Express response
-            generateResponse.body.pipe(response);
-
-            request.socket.on('close', function () {
-                if (generateResponse.body instanceof Readable) generateResponse.body.destroy(); // Close the remote stream
-                response.end(); // End the Express response
-            });
-
-            generateResponse.body.on('end', function () {
-                console.log('Streaming request finished');
-                response.end();
-            });
+            forwardFetchResponse(generateResponse, response);
         } else {
             if (!generateResponse.ok) {
                 console.log(`Claude API returned error: ${generateResponse.status} ${generateResponse.statusText} ${await generateResponse.text()}`);
@@ -1640,11 +1621,7 @@ app.post('/generate_openai', jsonParser, function (request, response_generate_op
             if (fetchResponse.ok) {
                 if (request.body.stream) {
                     console.log('Streaming request in progress');
-                    fetchResponse.body.pipe(response_generate_openai);
-                    fetchResponse.body.on('end', () => {
-                        console.log('Streaming request finished');
-                        response_generate_openai.end();
-                    });
+                    forwardFetchResponse(fetchResponse, response_generate_openai);
                 } else {
                     let json = await fetchResponse.json();
                     response_generate_openai.send(json);
diff --git a/src/endpoints/novelai.js b/src/endpoints/novelai.js
index 2071c4c5b..89b460042 100644
--- a/src/endpoints/novelai.js
+++ b/src/endpoints/novelai.js
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 const fetch = require('node-fetch').default;
 const express = require('express');
 const util = require('util');
-const { Readable } = require('stream');
 const { readSecret, SECRET_KEYS } = require('./secrets');
-const { readAllChunks, extractFileFromZipBuffer } = require('../util');
+const { readAllChunks, extractFileFromZipBuffer, forwardFetchResponse } = require('../util');
 const { jsonParser } = require('../express-common');
 
 const API_NOVELAI = 'https://api.novelai.net';
@@ -188,17 +187,7 @@ router.post('/generate', jsonParser, async function (req, res) {
 
         if (req.body.streaming) {
             // Pipe remote SSE stream to Express response
-            response.body.pipe(res);
-
-            req.socket.on('close', function () {
-                if (response.body instanceof Readable) response.body.destroy(); // Close the remote stream
-                res.end(); // End the Express response
-            });
-
-            response.body.on('end', function () {
-                console.log('Streaming request finished');
-                res.end();
-            });
+            forwardFetchResponse(response, res);
         } else {
             if (!response.ok) {
                 const text = await response.text();
diff --git a/src/util.js b/src/util.js
index bc290c9ae..c6f344c71 100644
--- a/src/util.js
+++ b/src/util.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ const yauzl = require('yauzl');
 const mime = require('mime-types');
 const yaml = require('yaml');
 const { default: simpleGit } = require('simple-git');
+const { Readable } = require('stream');
 
 const { DIRECTORIES } = require('./constants');
 
@@ -346,6 +347,27 @@ function getImages(path) {
         .sort(Intl.Collator().compare);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Pipe a fetch() response to an Express.js Response, including status code.
+ * @param {Response} from The Fetch API response to pipe from.
+ * @param {Express.Response} to The Express response to pipe to.
+ */
+function forwardFetchResponse(from, to) {
+    to.statusCode = from.status;
+    to.statusMessage = from.statusText;
+    from.body.pipe(to);
+
+    to.socket.on('close', function () {
+        if (from.body instanceof Readable) from.body.destroy(); // Close the remote stream
+        to.end(); // End the Express response
+    });
+
+    from.body.on('end', function () {
+        console.log('Streaming request finished');
+        to.end();
+    });
+}
+
 module.exports = {
     getConfig,
     getConfigValue,
@@ -365,4 +387,5 @@ module.exports = {
     generateTimestamp,
     removeOldBackups,
     getImages,
+    forwardFetchResponse,
 };