diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index a742fa6..f30f1d4 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject tailrecursion/ring-proxy "2.0.0-SNAPSHOT"
+(defproject tailrecursion/ring-proxy "2.0.1-SNAPSHOT"
   :description  "HTTP proxy ring middleware for Clojure web applications."
   :url          "https://github.com/tailrecursion/ring-proxy"
   :license      {:name "Eclipse Public License"
diff --git a/src/tailrecursion/ring_proxy.clj b/src/tailrecursion/ring_proxy.clj
index 9759b98..5e641fd 100644
--- a/src/tailrecursion/ring_proxy.clj
+++ b/src/tailrecursion/ring_proxy.clj
@@ -22,6 +22,20 @@
       (.read rdr buf)
       buf)))
 
+(defn forward-request
+  "Forward request to the specified remote-uri"
+  [req remote-uri & [http-opts]]
+  (-> (merge {:method (:request-method req)
+                     :url (str remote-uri "?" (:query-string req))
+                     :headers (dissoc (:headers req) "host" "content-length")
+                     :body (if-let [len (get-in req [:headers "content-length"])]
+                             (slurp-binary (:body req) (Integer/parseInt len)))
+                     :follow-redirects true
+                     :throw-exceptions false
+                     :as :stream} http-opts)
+             request
+             prepare-cookies))
+
 (defn wrap-proxy
   "Proxies requests to proxied-path, a local URI, to the remote URI at
   remote-uri-base, also a string."
@@ -36,16 +50,7 @@
                                    (subs (:uri req) (.length proxied-path)))
                               nil
                               nil)]
-         (-> (merge {:method (:request-method req)
-                     :url (str remote-uri "?" (:query-string req))
-                     :headers (dissoc (:headers req) "host" "content-length")
-                     :body (if-let [len (get-in req [:headers "content-length"])]
-                             (slurp-binary (:body req) (Integer/parseInt len)))
-                     :follow-redirects true
-                     :throw-exceptions false
-                     :as :stream} http-opts)
-             request
-             prepare-cookies))
+         (forward-request req remote-uri [http-opts]))
        (handler req)))))
 
 (defn local-proxy-server