diff --git a/src/puter-js/src/index.js b/src/puter-js/src/index.js
index e45afa12..6a740d35 100644
--- a/src/puter-js/src/index.js
+++ b/src/puter-js/src/index.js
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import Exec from './modules/Exec.js';
 import Convert from './modules/Convert.js';
 import Threads from './modules/Threads.js';
 import Perms from './modules/Perms.js';
+import { pFetch } from './modules/networking/requests.js';
 
 // TODO: This is for a safe-guard below; we should check if we can
 //       generalize this behavior rather than hard-coding it.
@@ -350,7 +351,8 @@ export default window.puter = (function() {
                 Socket: PSocket,
                 tls: {
                     TLSSocket: PTLSSocket
-                }
+                },
+                fetch: pFetch
             }
             
             // === puter.http ===
diff --git a/src/puter-js/src/modules/networking/requests.js b/src/puter-js/src/modules/networking/requests.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e2370743
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/puter-js/src/modules/networking/requests.js
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+// SO: https://stackoverflow.com/a/76332760/ under CC BY-SA 4.0
+function mergeUint8Arrays(...arrays) {
+    const totalSize = arrays.reduce((acc, e) => acc + e.length, 0);
+    const merged = new Uint8Array(totalSize);
+
+    arrays.forEach((array, i, arrays) => {
+        const offset = arrays.slice(0, i).reduce((acc, e) => acc + e.length, 0);
+        merged.set(array, offset);
+    });
+
+    return merged;
+}
+
+function parseHTTPHead(head) {
+    const lines = head.split("\r\n");
+
+    const firstLine = lines.shift().split(" ");
+    const status = Number(firstLine[1]);
+    const statusText = firstLine.slice(2).join(" ") || "";
+
+    const headersArray = [];
+    for (const header of lines) {
+        const splitHeaders = header.split(": ");
+        const key = splitHeaders[0];
+        const value = splitHeaders.slice(1).join(": ");
+        headersArray.push([key, value]);
+    }
+    new Headers(headersArray);
+    return { headers: new Headers(headersArray), statusText, status };
+}
+
+// Trivial stream based HTTP 1.1 client
+// TODO redirects, chunked encoding
+
+export function pFetch(...args) {
+    return new Promise((res, rej) => {
+        const reqObj = new Request(...args);
+        const parsedURL = new URL(reqObj.url);
+        let headers = new Headers(reqObj.headers); // Make a headers object we can modify
+
+        // Socket creation: regular for HTTP, TLS for https
+        let socket;
+        if (parsedURL.protocol === "http:") {
+            socket = new puter.net.Socket(
+                parsedURL.hostname,
+                parsedURL.port || 80,
+            );
+        } else if (parsedURL.protocol === "https:") {
+            socket = new puter.net.tls.TLSSocket(
+                parsedURL.hostname,
+                parsedURL.port || 443,
+            );
+        } else {
+            rej(
+                `Failed to fetch. URL scheme "${parsedURL.protocol}" is not supported.`,
+            );
+        }
+
+        // Sending default UA
+        if (!headers.get("user-agent")) {
+            headers.set("user-agent", navigator.userAgent);
+        }
+
+        let reqHead = `${reqObj.method} ${parsedURL.pathname} HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: ${parsedURL.host}\r\nConnection: close\r\n`;
+        for (const [key, value] of headers) {
+            reqHead += `${key}: ${value}\r\n`;
+        }
+        reqHead += "\r\n";
+
+        socket.on("open", () => {
+            socket.write(reqHead);
+        });
+        const decoder = new TextDecoder();
+        let responseHead = "";
+        let dataOffset = -1;
+        const fullDataParts = [];
+        let responseReturned = false;
+        let contentLength = -1;
+        let ingestedContent = 0;
+
+        const outStream = new ReadableStream({
+            start(controller) {
+                socket.on("data", (data) => {
+                    // Dataoffset is set to another value once head is returned, its safe to assume all remaining data is body
+                    if (dataOffset !== -1) {
+                        controller.enqueue(data);
+                        ingestedContent += data.length;
+                    }
+
+                    fullDataParts.push(data);
+                    responseHead += decoder.decode(data, { stream: true });
+
+                    // See if we have the HEAD of an HTTP/1.1 yet
+                    if (reqHead.indexOf("\r\n\r\n") !== -1) {
+                        dataOffset = responseHead.indexOf("\r\n\r\n");
+                        responseHead = responseHead.slice(0, dataOffset);
+                        const parsedHead = parseHTTPHead(responseHead);
+                        contentLength = Number(
+                            parsedHead.headers.get("content-length"),
+                        );
+                        // Return initial response object
+                        res(new Response(outStream, parsedHead));
+
+                        // Add any content we have but isn't part of the head into the body stream
+                        const residualBody = mergeUint8Arrays(
+                            ...fullDataParts,
+                        ).slice(dataOffset + 4);
+                        ingestedContent += residualBody.length;
+                        controller.enqueue(residualBody);
+                    }
+
+                    if (
+                        contentLength !== -1 &&
+                        ingestedContent === contentLength
+                    ) {
+                        // Work around for the close bug for compliant HTTP/1.1 servers
+                        if (!responseReturned) {
+                            responseReturned = true;
+                            controller.close();
+                        }
+                    }
+                });
+                socket.on("close", () => {
+                    if (!responseReturned) {
+                        responseReturned = true;
+                        controller.close();
+                    }
+                });
+                socket.on("error", (reason) => {
+                    rej("Socket errored with the following reason: " + reason);
+                });
+            },
+        });
+    });
+}