XML-RPC Upload Feature Request

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php

  if ( empty($argv[1]) ){
    exit;
  }

  $rpcurl='https://www.foo.com/xmlrpc.php';
  $username='bar';
  $password='rootme';
  $blogid=1; //Post ID

  $file=file_get_contents("$argv[1]") or die();
  $filename = basename($argv[1]);

  $path_parts = pathinfo("$filename");
  $filetype=$path_parts['extension'];

  if ( strcasecmp ( $filetype , "mp4" ) == 0 ){
    $filetype = "video/mp4";
  } else {
    $filetype = "image/jpeg";
  }

  xmlrpc_set_type($file,'base64'); // <-- required!
  $params = array($blogid,$username,$password,
        array('name'=>$filename,'type'=>$filetype,'bits'=>$file,'overwrite'=>false));
  $request = xmlrpc_encode_request('wp.uploadFile',$params);

  $result = go($request,$rpcurl);
  print_r($result);

  function go($request,$rpcurl){
      $ch = curl_init();
      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,1);
      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$rpcurl);
      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$request );
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:')); //Fixes the HTTP/1.1 417 Expectation Failed Bug
      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
      curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,1);
    //  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_VERBOSE,1);
      $result = curl_exec($ch);
  }
?>