diff --git a/remotefilelog/fileserverclient.py b/remotefilelog/fileserverclient.py
--- a/remotefilelog/fileserverclient.py
+++ b/remotefilelog/fileserverclient.py
@@ -207,6 +207,26 @@
     # explicitly designed as a streaming method. In the future we
     # should probably introduce a streambatch() method upstream and
     # use that for this.
+    if (util.safehasattr(remote, 'commandexecutor')
+        and remote.capable('httppostargs')
+        and isinstance(remote, httppeer.httppeer)):
+
+        futures = []
+        with remote.commandexecutor() as e:
+            for m in missed:
+                futures.append(e.callcommand('getfile', {
+                    'file': idmap[m],
+                    'node': m[-40:]
+                }))
+
+        for m, future in itertools.izip(missed, futures):
+            r = future.result()
+            file_ = idmap[m]
+            node = m[-40:]
+            receivemissing(io.BytesIO('%d\n%s' % (len(r), r)), file_, node)
+            progresstick()
+        return
+
     if (getattr(remote, 'iterbatch', False) and remote.capable('httppostargs')
         and isinstance(remote, httppeer.httppeer)):
         b = remote.iterbatch()