diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index bf2756f..73a2f84 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ function setDefaults(defs) {
       debug(formHeaders);
       // generally uploads don't use Chunked Encoding (some systems have issues with it)
       // and I don't want to do the work to calculate the content-lengths. This seems to work.
-      form.submit(finalOpts, function (err, resp) {
+      req = form.submit(finalOpts, function (err, resp) {
         if (err) { cb(err); }
         onResponse(resp);
         resp.resume();
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 94b0e4e..6ae2def 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@coolaj86/urequest",
-  "version": "1.3.2",
+  "version": "1.3.3",
   "description": "A lightweight drop-in replacement for request",
   "main": "index.js",
   "files": [