diff --git a/src/modules/backend/backend.router.ts b/src/modules/backend/backend.router.ts
index 2d39c1030..ad83a90f7 100644
--- a/src/modules/backend/backend.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/backend/backend.router.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import type { BackendCapabilities } from '~/modules/backend/store-backend-capabi
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '~/server/api/trpc.server';
 import { env } from '~/server/env.mjs';
-import { fetchJsonOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 import { analyticsListCapabilities } from './backend.analytics';
 
@@ -72,9 +72,12 @@ export const backendRouter = createTRPCRouter({
     .input(z.object({ code: z.string() }))
     .query(async ({ input }) => {
       // Documented here: https://openrouter.ai/docs#oauth
-      return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<{ key: string }, { code: string }>('https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/auth/keys', 'POST', {}, {
-        code: input.code,
-      }, 'Backend.exchangeOpenRouterKey');
+      return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<{ key: string }, { code: string }>({
+        url: 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/auth/keys',
+        method: 'POST',
+        body: { code: input.code },
+        name: 'Backend.exchangeOpenRouterKey',
+      });
     }),
 
 });
diff --git a/src/modules/elevenlabs/elevenlabs.router.ts b/src/modules/elevenlabs/elevenlabs.router.ts
index 874b60649..5d77ef22f 100644
--- a/src/modules/elevenlabs/elevenlabs.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/elevenlabs/elevenlabs.router.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { z } from 'zod';
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '~/server/api/trpc.server';
 import { env } from '~/server/env.mjs';
-import { fetchJsonOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 
 export const speechInputSchema = z.object({
@@ -49,7 +49,11 @@ export const elevenlabsRouter = createTRPCRouter({
       const { elevenKey } = input;
       const { headers, url } = elevenlabsAccess(elevenKey, '/v1/voices');
 
-      const voicesList = await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<ElevenlabsWire.VoicesList>(url, 'GET', headers, undefined, 'ElevenLabs');
+      const voicesList = await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<ElevenlabsWire.VoicesList>({
+        url,
+        headers,
+        name: 'ElevenLabs',
+      });
 
       // bring category != 'premade' to the top
       voicesList.voices.sort((a, b) => {
diff --git a/src/modules/google/search.router.ts b/src/modules/google/search.router.ts
index 10501099d..05ebbed73 100644
--- a/src/modules/google/search.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/google/search.router.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { z } from 'zod';
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '~/server/api/trpc.server';
 import { env } from '~/server/env.mjs';
-import { fetchJsonOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 import { Search } from './search.types';
 
@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ export const googleSearchRouter = createTRPCRouter({
         throw new Error('Missing API Key or Custom Search Engine ID');
 
       const url = `https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?${objectToQueryString(customSearchParams)}`;
-      const data: Search.Wire.SearchResponse & { error?: { message?: string } } = await fetchJsonOrTRPCError(url, 'GET', {}, undefined, 'Google Custom Search');
+      const data: Search.Wire.SearchResponse & { error?: { message?: string } } = await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow({
+        url,
+        name: 'Google Custom Search',
+      });
+
       if (data.error)
         throw new TRPCError({
           code: 'BAD_REQUEST',
diff --git a/src/modules/llms/server/anthropic/anthropic.router.ts b/src/modules/llms/server/anthropic/anthropic.router.ts
index 169023626..b800cd4b0 100644
--- a/src/modules/llms/server/anthropic/anthropic.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/llms/server/anthropic/anthropic.router.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { TRPCError } from '@trpc/server';
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '~/server/api/trpc.server';
 import { env } from '~/server/env.mjs';
-import { fetchJsonOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 import { fixupHost } from '~/common/util/urlUtils';
 
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const DEFAULT_HELICONE_ANTHROPIC_HOST = 'anthropic.hconeai.com';
 
 async function anthropicPOST<TOut extends object, TPostBody extends object>(access: AnthropicAccessSchema, body: TPostBody, apiPath: string /*, signal?: AbortSignal*/): Promise<TOut> {
   const { headers, url } = anthropicAccess(access, apiPath);
-  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<TOut, TPostBody>(url, 'POST', headers, body, 'Anthropic');
+  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<TOut, TPostBody>({ url, method: 'POST', headers, body, name: 'Anthropic' });
 }
 
 export function anthropicAccess(access: AnthropicAccessSchema, apiPath: string): { headers: HeadersInit, url: string } {
diff --git a/src/modules/llms/server/gemini/gemini.router.ts b/src/modules/llms/server/gemini/gemini.router.ts
index 2e4cd0c46..cdc6fecd8 100644
--- a/src/modules/llms/server/gemini/gemini.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/llms/server/gemini/gemini.router.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { env } from '~/server/env.mjs';
 import packageJson from '../../../../../package.json';
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '~/server/api/trpc.server';
-import { fetchJsonOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 import { fixupHost } from '~/common/util/urlUtils';
 import { llmsChatGenerateOutputSchema, llmsGenerateContextSchema, llmsListModelsOutputSchema } from '../llm.server.types';
@@ -95,12 +95,12 @@ export const geminiGenerateContentTextPayload = (model: OpenAIModelSchema, histo
 
 async function geminiGET<TOut extends object>(access: GeminiAccessSchema, modelRefId: string | null, apiPath: string /*, signal?: AbortSignal*/): Promise<TOut> {
   const { headers, url } = geminiAccess(access, modelRefId, apiPath);
-  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<TOut>(url, 'GET', headers, undefined, 'Gemini');
+  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<TOut>({ url, headers, name: 'Gemini' });
 }
 
 async function geminiPOST<TOut extends object, TPostBody extends object>(access: GeminiAccessSchema, modelRefId: string | null, body: TPostBody, apiPath: string /*, signal?: AbortSignal*/): Promise<TOut> {
   const { headers, url } = geminiAccess(access, modelRefId, apiPath);
-  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<TOut, TPostBody>(url, 'POST', headers, body, 'Gemini');
+  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<TOut, TPostBody>({ url, method: 'POST', headers, body, name: 'Gemini' });
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/modules/llms/server/ollama/ollama.router.ts b/src/modules/llms/server/ollama/ollama.router.ts
index e8097d06c..c85b317c9 100644
--- a/src/modules/llms/server/ollama/ollama.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/llms/server/ollama/ollama.router.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { TRPCError } from '@trpc/server';
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '~/server/api/trpc.server';
 import { env } from '~/server/env.mjs';
-import { fetchJsonOrTRPCError, fetchTextOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow, fetchTextOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 import { LLM_IF_OAI_Chat } from '../../store-llms';
 
@@ -88,12 +88,12 @@ export function ollamaCompletionPayload(model: OpenAIModelSchema, history: OpenA
 
 async function ollamaGET<TOut extends object>(access: OllamaAccessSchema, apiPath: string /*, signal?: AbortSignal*/): Promise<TOut> {
   const { headers, url } = ollamaAccess(access, apiPath);
-  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<TOut>(url, 'GET', headers, undefined, 'Ollama');
+  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<TOut>({ url, headers, name: 'Ollama' });
 }
 
 async function ollamaPOST<TOut extends object, TPostBody extends object>(access: OllamaAccessSchema, body: TPostBody, apiPath: string /*, signal?: AbortSignal*/): Promise<TOut> {
   const { headers, url } = ollamaAccess(access, apiPath);
-  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<TOut, TPostBody>(url, 'POST', headers, body, 'Ollama');
+  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<TOut, TPostBody>({ url, method: 'POST', headers, body, name: 'Ollama' });
 }
 
 
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ export const llmOllamaRouter = createTRPCRouter({
 
       // fetch as a large text buffer, made of JSONs separated by newlines
       const { headers, url } = ollamaAccess(input.access, '/api/pull');
-      const pullRequest = await fetchTextOrTRPCError(url, 'POST', headers, { 'name': input.name }, 'Ollama::pull');
+      const pullRequest = await fetchTextOrTRPCThrow({ url, method: 'POST', headers, body: { 'name': input.name }, name: 'Ollama::pull' });
 
       // accumulate status and error messages
       let lastStatus: string = 'unknown';
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ export const llmOllamaRouter = createTRPCRouter({
     .input(adminPullModelSchema)
     .mutation(async ({ input }) => {
       const { headers, url } = ollamaAccess(input.access, '/api/delete');
-      const deleteOutput = await fetchTextOrTRPCError(url, 'DELETE', headers, { 'name': input.name }, 'Ollama::delete');
+      const deleteOutput = await fetchTextOrTRPCThrow({ url, method: 'DELETE', headers, body: { 'name': input.name }, name: 'Ollama::delete' });
       if (deleteOutput?.length && deleteOutput !== 'null')
         throw new Error('Ollama delete issue: ' + deleteOutput);
     }),
diff --git a/src/modules/llms/server/openai/openai.router.ts b/src/modules/llms/server/openai/openai.router.ts
index 13ca7dabb..38585f6e7 100644
--- a/src/modules/llms/server/openai/openai.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/llms/server/openai/openai.router.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { TRPCError } from '@trpc/server';
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '~/server/api/trpc.server';
 import { env } from '~/server/env.mjs';
-import { fetchJsonOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 import { T2iCreateImageOutput, t2iCreateImagesOutputSchema } from '~/modules/t2i/t2i.server';
 
@@ -652,12 +652,12 @@ export function openAIChatCompletionPayload(dialect: OpenAIDialects, model: Open
 
 async function openaiGETOrThrow<TOut extends object>(access: OpenAIAccessSchema, apiPath: string /*, signal?: AbortSignal*/): Promise<TOut> {
   const { headers, url } = openAIAccess(access, null, apiPath);
-  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<TOut>(url, 'GET', headers, undefined, `OpenAI/${access.dialect}`);
+  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<TOut>({ url, headers, name: `OpenAI/${access.dialect}` });
 }
 
 async function openaiPOSTOrThrow<TOut extends object, TPostBody extends object>(access: OpenAIAccessSchema, modelRefId: string | null, body: TPostBody, apiPath: string /*, signal?: AbortSignal*/): Promise<TOut> {
   const { headers, url } = openAIAccess(access, modelRefId, apiPath);
-  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<TOut, TPostBody>(url, 'POST', headers, body, `OpenAI/${access.dialect}`);
+  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<TOut, TPostBody>({ url, method: 'POST', headers, body, name: `OpenAI/${access.dialect}` });
 }
 
 function parseChatGenerateFCOutput(isFunctionsCall: boolean, message: OpenAIWire.ChatCompletion.ResponseFunctionCall) {
diff --git a/src/modules/t2i/prodia/prodia.router.ts b/src/modules/t2i/prodia/prodia.router.ts
index 4edba3d92..529a62ec9 100644
--- a/src/modules/t2i/prodia/prodia.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/t2i/prodia/prodia.router.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { z } from 'zod';
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '~/server/api/trpc.server';
 import { env } from '~/server/env.mjs';
-import { fetchJsonOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 import { getPngDimensions, t2iCreateImagesOutputSchema } from '../t2i.server';
 
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ export const prodiaRouter = createTRPCRouter({
       // fetch in parallel both the SD and SDXL models
       const { headers, url } = prodiaAccess(input.prodiaKey, `/v1/sd/models`);
       const [sdModelIds, sdXlModelIds] = await Promise.all([
-        fetchJsonOrTRPCError<string[]>(url, 'GET', headers, undefined, 'Prodia'),
-        fetchJsonOrTRPCError<string[]>(url.replace('/sd/', '/sdxl/'), 'GET', headers, undefined, 'Prodia'),
+        fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<string[]>({ url, headers, name: 'Prodia SD' }),
+        fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<string[]>({ url: url.replace('/sd/', '/sdxl/'), headers, name: 'Prodia SDXL' }),
       ]);
       const apiModelIDs = [...sdModelIds, ...sdXlModelIds];
 
@@ -193,12 +193,12 @@ export interface JobResponse {
 
 async function createGenerationJob<TJobRequest extends JobRequestBase>(apiKey: string | undefined, isGenSDXL: boolean, jobRequest: TJobRequest): Promise<JobResponse> {
   const { headers, url } = prodiaAccess(apiKey, isGenSDXL ? '/v1/sdxl/generate' : '/v1/sd/generate');
-  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<JobResponse, TJobRequest>(url, 'POST', headers, jobRequest, 'Prodia Job Create');
+  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<JobResponse, TJobRequest>({ url, method: 'POST', headers, body: jobRequest, name: 'Prodia Job Create' });
 }
 
 async function getJobStatus(apiKey: string | undefined, jobId: string): Promise<JobResponse> {
   const { headers, url } = prodiaAccess(apiKey, `/v1/job/${jobId}`);
-  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<JobResponse>(url, 'GET', headers, undefined, 'Prodia Job Status');
+  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<JobResponse>({ url, headers, name: 'Prodia Job Status' });
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/modules/trade/server/pastegg.ts b/src/modules/trade/server/pastegg.ts
index d7904cd0d..6713a802c 100644
--- a/src/modules/trade/server/pastegg.ts
+++ b/src/modules/trade/server/pastegg.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { z } from 'zod';
 
-import { fetchJsonOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 
 export const publishToInputSchema = z.object({
@@ -55,7 +55,13 @@ export async function postToPasteGGOrThrow(title: string, fileName: string, file
     }],
   };
 
-  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCError<PasteGGWire.PasteResponse, PasteGGWire.PasteRequest>('https://api.paste.gg/v1/pastes', 'POST', { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, pasteData, 'PasteGG');
+  return await fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<PasteGGWire.PasteResponse, PasteGGWire.PasteRequest>({
+    url: 'https://api.paste.gg/v1/pastes',
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+    body: pasteData,
+    name: 'PasteGG',
+  });
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/modules/trade/server/trade.router.ts b/src/modules/trade/server/trade.router.ts
index d60753fb6..b5975c9e7 100644
--- a/src/modules/trade/server/trade.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/trade/server/trade.router.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { TRPCError } from '@trpc/server';
 import { z } from 'zod';
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '~/server/api/trpc.server';
-import { fetchTextOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchTextOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 import { chatGptParseConversation, chatGptSharedChatSchema } from './chatgpt';
 import { postToPasteGGOrThrow, publishToInputSchema, publishToOutputSchema } from './pastegg';
@@ -34,12 +34,16 @@ export const tradeRouter = createTRPCRouter({
         htmlPage = input.htmlPage;
       } else {
         // add headers that make it closest to a browser request
-        htmlPage = await fetchTextOrTRPCError(input.url, 'GET', {
-          'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7',
-          'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
-          'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9',
-          'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
-        }, undefined, 'ChatGPT Importer');
+        htmlPage = await fetchTextOrTRPCThrow({
+          url: input.url,
+          headers: {
+            'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7',
+            'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
+            'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9',
+            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
+          },
+          name: 'ChatGPT Importer',
+        });
       }
 
       const data = chatGptParseConversation(htmlPage);
diff --git a/src/modules/youtube/youtube.router.ts b/src/modules/youtube/youtube.router.ts
index b43caecac..203771683 100644
--- a/src/modules/youtube/youtube.router.ts
+++ b/src/modules/youtube/youtube.router.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import { z } from 'zod';
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '~/server/api/trpc.server';
-import { fetchTextOrTRPCError } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
+import { fetchTextOrTRPCThrow } from '~/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers';
 
 import { fetchYouTubeTranscript } from './youtube.fetcher';
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export const youtubeRouter = createTRPCRouter({
     .input(inputSchema)
     .query(async ({ input }) => {
       const { videoId } = input;
-      return await fetchYouTubeTranscript(videoId, url => fetchTextOrTRPCError(url, 'GET', {}, undefined, 'YouTube Transcript'));
+      return await fetchYouTubeTranscript(videoId, (url) => fetchTextOrTRPCThrow({ url, name: 'YouTube Transcript' }));
     }),
 
 });
diff --git a/src/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers.ts b/src/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers.ts
index 4755a8bbe..1c29d0b9d 100644
--- a/src/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers.ts
+++ b/src/server/api/trpc.router.fetchers.ts
@@ -3,78 +3,134 @@ import { TRPCError } from '@trpc/server';
 import { debugGenerateCurlCommand, safeErrorString, SERVER_DEBUG_WIRE } from '~/server/wire';
 
 
+//
+// NOTE: This file is used in the server-side code, and not in the client-side code.
+//
+// It is used to fetch data from external APIs, and throw TRPC errors on failure.
+//
+// It handles connection errors, HTTP errors, and parsing errors.
+//
+
 // JSON fetcher
-export const fetchJsonOrTRPCError: <TOut extends object, TPostBody extends object | undefined = undefined /* undefined for GET requests */>(
-  url: string,
-  method: 'GET' | 'POST',
-  headers: HeadersInit,
-  body: TPostBody,
-  moduleName: string,
-) => Promise<TOut> = createFetcherFromTRPC(async (response) => await response.json(), 'json');
+export async function fetchJsonOrTRPCThrow<TOut extends object = object, TBody extends object | undefined = undefined>(config: RequestConfig<TBody>): Promise<TOut> {
+  return _fetchFromTRPC<TBody, TOut>(config, async (response) => await response.json(), 'json');
+}
 
 // Text fetcher
-export const fetchTextOrTRPCError: <TPostBody extends object | undefined>(
-  url: string,
-  method: 'GET' | 'POST' | 'DELETE',
-  headers: HeadersInit,
-  body: TPostBody,
-  moduleName: string,
-) => Promise<string> = createFetcherFromTRPC(async (response) => await response.text(), 'text');
-
-
-// internal safe fetch implementation
-function createFetcherFromTRPC<TPostBody, TOut>(parser: (response: Response) => Promise<TOut>, parserName: string): (url: string, method: 'GET' | 'POST' | 'DELETE', headers: HeadersInit, body: TPostBody | undefined, moduleName: string) => Promise<TOut> {
-  return async (url, method, headers, body, moduleName) => {
-    // Fetch
-    let response: Response;
-    try {
-      if (SERVER_DEBUG_WIRE)
-        console.log('-> tRPC', debugGenerateCurlCommand(method, url, headers, body as any));
-
-      response = await fetch(url, { method, headers, ...(body !== undefined ? { body: JSON.stringify(body) } : {}) });
-    } catch (error: any) {
-      const errorCause: object | undefined = error ? error?.cause ?? undefined : undefined;
-      console.error(`[${method}] ${moduleName} error (fetch):`, errorCause || error /* circular struct, don't use JSON.stringify.. */);
-      // HTTP 400
-      throw new TRPCError({
-        code: 'BAD_REQUEST',
-        message: `[Issue] ${moduleName}: (network): ${safeErrorString(error) || 'unknown fetch error'}`
-          + (errorCause ? ` - ${errorCause?.toString()}` : '')
-          + ((errorCause && (errorCause as any)?.code === 'ECONNREFUSED') ? ` - is "${url}" accessible by the server?` : ''),
-        cause: errorCause,
-      });
-    }
-
-    /* Check for non-200s
-     * These are the MOST FREQUENT errors, application level response. Such as:
-     * - 400 when requesting an invalid size to Dall-E3, etc..
-     */
-    if (!response.ok) {
-      let payload: any | null = await response.json().catch(() => null);
-      if (payload === null)
-        payload = await response.text().catch(() => null);
-      console.error(`[${method}] ${moduleName} error (upstream):`, response.status, response.statusText, payload);
-      // HTTP 400
-      throw new TRPCError({
-        code: 'BAD_REQUEST',
-        message: `[Issue] ${moduleName}: ${response.statusText}` // (${response.status})`
-          + (payload ? ` - ${safeErrorString(payload)}` : '')
-          + (response.status === 403 ? ` - is "${url}" accessible by the server?` : '')
-          + (response.status === 404 ? ` - "${url}" cannot be found by the server` : '')
-          + (response.status === 502 ? ` - is "${url}" not available?` : ''),
-      });
-    }
-
-    // Safe Parse
-    try {
-      return await parser(response);
-    } catch (error: any) {
-      console.error(`[${method}] ${moduleName} error (parse):`, error);
-      // HTTP 422
-      throw new TRPCError({
-        code: 'UNPROCESSABLE_CONTENT',
-        message: `[Issue] ${moduleName}: (parsing): ${safeErrorString(error) || `Unknown ${parserName} parsing error`}`,
-      });
-    }
-  };
+export async function fetchTextOrTRPCThrow<TBody extends object | undefined = undefined>(config: RequestConfig<TBody>): Promise<string> {
+  return _fetchFromTRPC<TBody, string>(config, async (response) => await response.text(), 'text');
+}
+
+// Response fetcher
+export async function fetchResponseOrTRPCThrow<TBody extends object | undefined = undefined>(config: RequestConfig<TBody>): Promise<Response> {
+  return _fetchFromTRPC<TBody, Response>(config, async (response) => response, 'response');
+}
+
+
+type RequestConfig<TBody extends object | undefined> = {
+  url: string;
+  headers?: HeadersInit;
+  signal?: AbortSignal;
+  name: string;
+} & (
+  | { method?: 'GET' /* in case of GET, the method is optional, and no body */ }
+  | { method: 'POST'; body: TBody }
+  | { method: 'DELETE'; body: TBody }
+  );
+
+
+/**
+ * Internal fetcher
+ * - Parses errors on connection, http responses, and parsing
+ * - Throws TRPCErrors (as this is used within tRPC procedures)
+ */
+async function _fetchFromTRPC<TBody extends object | undefined, TOut>(
+  config: RequestConfig<TBody>,
+  responseParser: (response: Response) => Promise<TOut>,
+  parserName: 'json' | 'text' | 'response',
+): Promise<TOut> {
+
+  const { url, method = 'GET', headers, name: moduleName, signal } = config;
+  const body = 'body' in config ? config.body : undefined;
+
+  // 1. Fetch a Response object
+  let response: Response;
+  try {
+
+    if (SERVER_DEBUG_WIRE)
+      console.log('-> tRPC', debugGenerateCurlCommand(method, url, headers, body as any));
+
+    // upstream request
+    const request: RequestInit = { method };
+    if (headers !== undefined) request.headers = headers;
+    if (body !== undefined) request.body = JSON.stringify(body);
+    if (signal) request.signal = signal;
+
+    // upstream fetch
+    response = await fetch(url, request);
+
+  } catch (error: any) {
+
+    // [logging - Connection error] candidate for the logging system
+    const errorCause: object | undefined = error ? error?.cause ?? undefined : undefined;
+    console.error(`[${method}] ${moduleName} error (network):`, errorCause || error /* circular struct, don't use JSON.stringify.. */);
+
+    // Handle Connection errors - HTTP 400
+    throw new TRPCError({
+      code: 'BAD_REQUEST',
+      message: `[${moduleName} network issue]: ${safeErrorString(error) || 'unknown fetch error'}`
+        + (errorCause
+          ? ` - ${errorCause?.toString()}`
+          : '')
+        + ((errorCause && (errorCause as any)?.code === 'ECONNREFUSED')
+          ? ` - is "${url}" accessible by the server?`
+          : ''),
+      cause: errorCause,
+    });
+  }
+
+  // 2. Check for non-200s
+  // These are the MOST FREQUENT errors, application level response. Such as:
+  //  - 400 when requesting an invalid size to Dall-E3, etc..
+  //  - 403 when requesting a localhost URL from a public server, etc..
+  if (!response.ok) {
+    // try to parse a json or text payload, which frequently contains the error, if present
+    let payload: any | null = await response.json().catch(() => null);
+    if (payload === null)
+      payload = await response.text().catch(() => null);
+
+    // [logging - HTTP error] candidate for the logging system
+    console.error(`[${method}] ${moduleName} error (upstream):`, response.status, response.statusText, payload);
+
+    // HTTP 400
+    throw new TRPCError({
+      code: 'BAD_REQUEST',
+      message: `[${moduleName} issue]: ${response.statusText}`
+        + (payload
+          ? ` - ${safeErrorString(payload)}` : '')
+        + (response.status === 403
+          ? ` - is "${url}" accessible by the server?` : '')
+        + (response.status === 404
+          ? ` - "${url}" cannot be found by the server` : '')
+        + (response.status === 502 ?
+          ` - is "${url}" not available?` : ''),
+    });
+  }
+
+  // 3. Safe Parse
+  let value: TOut;
+  try {
+    value = await responseParser(response);
+  } catch (error: any) {
+    // [logging - Parsing error] candidate for the logging system
+    console.error(`[${method}] ${moduleName} error (parse, ${parserName}):`, error);
+
+    // HTTP 422
+    throw new TRPCError({
+      code: 'UNPROCESSABLE_CONTENT',
+      message: `[${moduleName} parsing issue]: ${safeErrorString(error) || 'unknown error'}`,
+    });
+  }
+
+  return value;
 }
diff --git a/src/server/wire.ts b/src/server/wire.ts
index cd91d1b33..1c7ae1f2c 100644
--- a/src/server/wire.ts
+++ b/src/server/wire.ts
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ export function serverCapitalizeFirstLetter(string: string) {
 /**
  * Weak (meaning the string could be encoded poorly) function that returns a string that can be used to debug a request
  */
-export function debugGenerateCurlCommand(method: 'GET' | 'POST' | 'DELETE', url: string, headers: HeadersInit, body: object | undefined): string {
+export function debugGenerateCurlCommand(method: 'GET' | 'POST' | 'DELETE', url: string, headers?: HeadersInit, body?: object): string {
   let curl = `curl -X ${method} '${url}' `;
 
-  const headersRecord = headers as Record<string, string>;
+  const headersRecord = (headers || {}) as Record<string, string>;
 
   for (const header in headersRecord)
     curl += `-H '${header}: ${headersRecord[header]}' `;