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		pseudosavant on Jan 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Data fetching on the web still sucks This is possible with the Fetch API actually. You can get the chunked up contents of the request as they arrive. This link has a good example: https://javascript.info/fetch-progress

tyingq on Jan 28, 2021 [–]

The issue is with "Content-Encoding: gzip". In that case, "Content-Length" isn't enough. You can make it work if you toss in an extra header server-side.

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