diff --git a/web_src/js/components/RepoActionView.vue b/web_src/js/components/RepoActionView.vue
index 925ff7e087470..774fd25dfcac1 100644
--- a/web_src/js/components/RepoActionView.vue
+++ b/web_src/js/components/RepoActionView.vue
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ import {createApp} from 'vue';
 import {toggleElem} from '../utils/dom.js';
 import {getCurrentLocale} from '../utils.js';
 import {renderAnsi} from '../render/ansi.js';
-
-const {csrfToken} = window.config;
+import {POST, isNetworkError} from '../modules/fetch.js';
 
 const sfc = {
   name: 'RepoActionView',
@@ -145,11 +144,11 @@ const sfc = {
     },
     // cancel a run
     cancelRun() {
-      this.fetchPost(`${this.run.link}/cancel`);
+      POST(`${this.run.link}/cancel`);
     },
     // approve a run
     approveRun() {
-      this.fetchPost(`${this.run.link}/approve`);
+      POST(`${this.run.link}/approve`);
     },
 
     createLogLine(line, startTime, stepIndex) {
@@ -203,10 +202,9 @@ const sfc = {
         // for example: make cursor=null means the first time to fetch logs, cursor=eof means no more logs, etc
         return {step: idx, cursor: it.cursor, expanded: it.expanded};
       });
-      const resp = await this.fetchPost(
-        `${this.actionsURL}/runs/${this.runIndex}/jobs/${this.jobIndex}`,
-        JSON.stringify({logCursors}),
-      );
+      const resp = await POST(`${this.actionsURL}/runs/${this.runIndex}/jobs/${this.jobIndex}`, {
+        json: {logCursors},
+      });
       return await resp.json();
     },
 
@@ -216,7 +214,7 @@ const sfc = {
         this.loading = true;
 
         // refresh artifacts if upload-artifact step done
-        const resp = await this.fetchPost(`${this.actionsURL}/runs/${this.runIndex}/artifacts`);
+        const resp = await POST(`${this.actionsURL}/runs/${this.runIndex}/artifacts`);
         const artifacts = await resp.json();
         this.artifacts = artifacts['artifacts'] || [];
 
@@ -244,23 +242,16 @@ const sfc = {
           clearInterval(this.intervalID);
           this.intervalID = null;
         }
+      } catch (err) {
+        // avoid error while unloading page with fetch in progress
+        if (!isNetworkError(err.message)) {
+          throw err;
+        }
       } finally {
         this.loading = false;
       }
     },
 
-
-    fetchPost(url, body) {
-      return fetch(url, {
-        method: 'POST',
-        headers: {
-          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-          'X-Csrf-Token': csrfToken,
-        },
-        body,
-      });
-    },
-
     isDone(status) {
       return ['success', 'skipped', 'failure', 'cancelled'].includes(status);
     },
diff --git a/web_src/js/modules/fetch.js b/web_src/js/modules/fetch.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f9d353fb40ee3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web_src/js/modules/fetch.js
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+const {csrfToken} = window.config;
+
+function request(url, {headers, json, ...other} = {}) {
+  return window.fetch(url, {
+    headers: {
+      'x-csrf-token': csrfToken,
+      ...(json && {'content-type': 'application/json'}),
+      ...headers,
+    },
+    ...(json && {body: JSON.stringify(json)}),
+    ...other,
+  });
+}
+
+export const GET = (url, opts) => request(url, {method: 'GET', ...opts});
+export const POST = (url, opts) => request(url, {method: 'POST', ...opts});
+export const PATCH = (url, opts) => request(url, {method: 'PATCH', ...opts});
+export const PUT = (url, opts) => request(url, {method: 'PUT', ...opts});
+export const DELETE = (url, opts) => request(url, {method: 'DELETE', ...opts});
+
+// network errors are currently only detectable by error message
+// based on https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-retry/blob/main/index.js
+const networkErrorMsgs = new Set([
+  'Failed to fetch', // Chrome
+  'NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.', // Firefox
+  'The Internet connection appears to be offline.', // Safari
+]);
+
+export function isNetworkError(msg) {
+  return networkErrorMsgs.has(msg);
+}
diff --git a/web_src/js/modules/fetch.test.js b/web_src/js/modules/fetch.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3f076b3ad9864
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web_src/js/modules/fetch.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import {test, expect} from 'vitest';
+import {GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE, isNetworkError} from './fetch.js';
+
+test('exports', () => {
+  expect(GET).toBeTruthy();
+  expect(POST).toBeTruthy();
+  expect(PATCH).toBeTruthy();
+  expect(PUT).toBeTruthy();
+  expect(DELETE).toBeTruthy();
+});
+
+test('isNetworkError', () => {
+  expect(isNetworkError('Failed to fetch')).toEqual(true);
+});