Use `XHR` instead of `fetch` to provide progress updates
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Description
[`fetch`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API) API does not provide an API to monitor upload progress which prevents [ipfs-webui](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-webui/) from reporting any progress on file add.
There are some discussions around making progress observable:
- https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/21
- https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/447
It appears that [ReadableStreams](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ReadableStream) will at some point provide a way to do that, however no browser supports it today.
In the meantime I'd like to propose using XHR & it's progress events.
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