package main import ( "bytes" "fmt" "io" "log" "mime/multipart" "net/http" "os" "path/filepath" ) // Creates a new file upload http request with optional extra params func newfileUploadRequest(uri string, params map[string]string, paramName, path string) (*http.Request, error) { file, err := os.Open(path) if err != nil { return nil, err } defer file.Close() body := &bytes.Buffer{} writer := multipart.NewWriter(body) part, err := writer.CreateFormFile(paramName, filepath.Base(path)) if err != nil { return nil, err } _, err = io.Copy(part, file) for key, val := range params { _ = writer.WriteField(key, val) } err = writer.Close() if err != nil { return nil, err } req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", uri, body) req.Header.Set("Content-Type", writer.FormDataContentType()) return req, err } func main() { path, _ := os.Getwd() path += "/test.pdf" extraParams := map[string]string{ "title": "My Document", "author": "Matt Aimonetti", "description": "A document with all the Go programming language secrets", } request, err := newfileUploadRequest("https://google.com/upload", extraParams, "file", "/tmp/doc.pdf") if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } client := &http.Client{} resp, err := client.Do(request) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } else { body := &bytes.Buffer{} _, err := body.ReadFrom(resp.Body) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } resp.Body.Close() fmt.Println(resp.StatusCode) fmt.Println(resp.Header) fmt.Println(body) } }