diff --git a/remotefilelog/fileserverclient.py b/remotefilelog/fileserverclient.py
--- a/remotefilelog/fileserverclient.py
+++ b/remotefilelog/fileserverclient.py
@@ -213,9 +213,7 @@
     # 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)):
+    if (util.safehasattr(remote, 'commandexecutor')):
 
         futures = []
         with remote.commandexecutor() as e: