diff --git a/src/interface/web/app/common/chatFunctions.ts b/src/interface/web/app/common/chatFunctions.ts
index e1a5f5a5..a1657ad5 100644
--- a/src/interface/web/app/common/chatFunctions.ts
+++ b/src/interface/web/app/common/chatFunctions.ts
@@ -33,88 +33,6 @@ export function handleCompiledReferences(chunk: string, currentResponse: string)
     return references;
 }
 
-async function sendChatStream(
-    message: string,
-    conversationId: string,
-    setIsLoading: (loading: boolean) => void,
-    setInitialResponse: (response: string) => void,
-    setInitialReferences: (references: ResponseWithReferences) => void) {
-    setIsLoading(true);
-    // Send a message to the chat server to verify the fact
-    const chatURL = "/api/chat";
-    const apiURL = `${chatURL}?q=${encodeURIComponent(message)}&client=web&stream=true&conversation_id=${conversationId}`;
-    try {
-        const response = await fetch(apiURL);
-        if (!response.body) throw new Error("No response body found");
-
-        const reader = response.body?.getReader();
-        let decoder = new TextDecoder();
-        let result = "";
-
-        while (true) {
-            const { done, value } = await reader.read();
-            if (done) break;
-
-            let chunk = decoder.decode(value, { stream: true });
-
-            if (chunk.includes("### compiled references:")) {
-                const references = handleCompiledReferences(chunk, result);
-                if (references.response) {
-                    result = references.response;
-                    setInitialResponse(references.response);
-                    setInitialReferences(references);
-                }
-            } else {
-                result += chunk;
-                setInitialResponse(result);
-            }
-        }
-    } catch (error) {
-        console.error("Error verifying statement: ", error);
-    } finally {
-        setIsLoading(false);
-    }
-}
-
-export const setupWebSocket = async (conversationId: string, initialMessage?: string) => {
-    const wsProtocol = window.location.protocol === 'https:' ? 'wss:' : 'ws:';
-
-    const host = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? window.location.host : 'localhost:42110';
-
-    let webSocketUrl = `${wsProtocol}//${host}/api/chat/ws`;
-
-    if (conversationId === null) {
-        return null;
-    }
-
-    if (conversationId) {
-        webSocketUrl += `?conversation_id=${conversationId}`;
-    }
-
-    const chatWS = new WebSocket(webSocketUrl);
-
-    chatWS.onopen = () => {
-        console.log('WebSocket connection established');
-        if (initialMessage) {
-            chatWS.send(initialMessage);
-        }
-    };
-
-    chatWS.onmessage = (event) => {
-        console.log(event.data);
-    };
-
-    chatWS.onerror = (error) => {
-        console.error('WebSocket error: ', error);
-    };
-
-    chatWS.onclose = () => {
-        console.log('WebSocket connection closed');
-    };
-
-    return chatWS;
-};
-
 interface MessageChunk {
     type: string;
     data: string | object;
diff --git a/src/interface/web/app/share/chat/page.tsx b/src/interface/web/app/share/chat/page.tsx
index f02ed1a1..56d27bbc 100644
--- a/src/interface/web/app/share/chat/page.tsx
+++ b/src/interface/web/app/share/chat/page.tsx
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { useAuthenticatedData } from '@/app/common/auth';
 
 import ChatInputArea, { ChatOptions } from '@/app/components/chatInputArea/chatInputArea';
 import { StreamMessage } from '@/app/components/chatMessage/chatMessage';
-import { convertMessageChunkToJson, handleCompiledReferences, handleImageResponse, RawReferenceData, setupWebSocket } from '@/app/common/chatFunctions';
+import { convertMessageChunkToJson, handleCompiledReferences, handleImageResponse, RawReferenceData } from '@/app/common/chatFunctions';
 import { AgentData } from '@/app/agents/page';