# HttpClient and @aurelia/fetch-client

**URL:** <https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/httpclient-and-aurelia-fetch-client/4566>\
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**Created:** [January 23, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/httpclient-and-aurelia-fetch-client/4566 "2022-01-23T03:14:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![manks](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.aurelia.io/manks/32/1995_2.png) [@manks](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/manks)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/httpclient-and-aurelia-fetch-client/4566/1 "2022-01-23T03:14:02Z")

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I’m using `@aurelia/fetch-client`, and it’s working fine for fetching. I assume this is the replacement for `aurelia-fetch-client`/`aurelia-http-client`, and includes `HttpClient`.

If that’s so, HttpClient v1 [used to have](https://github.com/aurelia/http-client/issues/104) methods for file upload progress: `withProgressCallback()`:

```auto
httpClient.createRequest('/blah')
    .asPost()
    .withContent(...)
    .withProgressCallback(updateProgress)
    .send();

```

It looks like that’s removed from `@aurelia/fetch-client`. How do I get that functionality back? There is [practically no documentation](http://aurelia.io/docs/api/fetch-client/class/HttpClient) for the API regarding this class, and the guide [is still referencing](http://aurelia.io/docs/plugins/http-services#aurelia-http-client) the old libraries.

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**Author:** ![manks](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.aurelia.io/manks/32/1995_2.png) [@manks](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/manks)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/httpclient-and-aurelia-fetch-client/4566/2 "2022-01-23T03:45:08Z")

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This looks like a very nice alternative.

> **[upload](https://www.npmjs.com/package/upload)**
>
> Isomorphic TypeScript file upload library.

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**Author:** ![zewa666](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.aurelia.io/zewa666/32/19_2.png) [@zewa666](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/zewa666)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 6:03am UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/httpclient-and-aurelia-fetch-client/4566/3 "2022-01-23T06:03:11Z")

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with XMLHttpRequest you got the native upload method + progress event, whereas fetch does not have that support. sadly nothing changed here since 2016

edit: an article by @dwaynecharrington showing that also the most promising movements didnt really succeed [File Upload Progress With The Fetch API Is Coming - I Like Kill Nerds](https://ilikekillnerds.com/2020/09/file-upload-progress-with-the-fetch-api-is-coming/) as there is still no progress