What is the cleanest way to get the progress of JQuery ajax request?

Question

In plain javascript is very simple: need just to attach the callback to {XMLHTTPRequest}.onprogress

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

xhr.onprogress = function(e){
    if (e.lengthComputable)
        var percent = (e.loaded / e.total) * 100;
};

xhr.open('GET', 'http://www...', true);
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
    ...
};
xhr.send(null);

but I'm doing an ajax site that download html data with JQuery ($.get() or $.ajax()) and I was wondering which is the best way to get the progress of a request in order to display it with a little progress bar but curiously, I'm not finding anything usefull in JQuery documentation...

Answer 1

Something like this for $.ajax (HTML5 only though):

$.ajax({
    xhr: function() {
        var xhr = new window.XMLHttpRequest();
        xhr.upload.addEventListener("progress", function(evt) {
            if (evt.lengthComputable) {
                var percentComplete = evt.loaded / evt.total;
                //Do something with upload progress here
            }
       }, false);

       xhr.addEventListener("progress", function(evt) {
           if (evt.lengthComputable) {
               var percentComplete = evt.loaded / evt.total;
               //Do something with download progress
           }
       }, false);

       return xhr;
    },
    type: 'POST',
    url: "/",
    data: {},
    success: function(data){
        //Do something on success
    }
});