def uploadFile(connection, url, fileName, uploadPath, overwrite=True):
    headers = {'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'}
    params = {"overwrite": overwrite, "uploadPath": uploadPath}
    log('Uploading to %s...' % uploadPath)
    try:
        with open(fileName, 'rb') as f:
            resp = requests.post(url, data=f, params=params, headers=headers, verify=False)
            if resp.ok is not True:
                raise Exception('POST operation failed with %s' %resp.text)
    except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as e:
        raise Exception(
            'Upload file failed. Received connection error. One common cause for this error is the size of the file to be uploaded.'
            ' The web server sets a limit of 1GB for the uploaded file size. Received the following error: %s' % str(e)
        )
    except IOError as e:
        raise Exception('Upload file failed. Received IO error: %s' % str(e))
    except Exception as e:
        raise Exception('Upload file failed. Received the following error:\n   %s' % str(e))
    else:
        log('Upload file finished.')
        log('Response status code %s' % resp.status_code)
        log('Response text %s' % resp.text)