diff --git a/examples/SharePoint/file_examples.php b/examples/SharePoint/file_examples.php
index 8041c8d4..caab78b0 100644
--- a/examples/SharePoint/file_examples.php
+++ b/examples/SharePoint/file_examples.php
@@ -187,3 +187,20 @@ function downloadFileAsStream(ClientRuntimeContext $ctx, $fileUrl, $targetFilePa
 
     print "File {$fileUrl} has been downloaded successfully\r\n";
 }
+
+function overwriteFileAsStream(ClientContext $ctx, $fileUrl, $sourceFilePath) {
+    $fileUrl = rawurlencode($fileUrl);
+    $fp = fopen($sourceFilePath, 'r');
+
+    $url = $ctx->getServiceRootUrl() . "web/getfilebyserverrelativeurl('$fileUrl')/\$value";
+    $options = new \Office365\PHP\Client\Runtime\Utilities\RequestOptions($url);
+    $options->Method = \Office365\PHP\Client\Runtime\HttpMethod::Post;
+    $options->addCustomHeader('X-HTTP-Method','PUT');
+    $ctx->ensureFormDigest($options);
+    $options->StreamHandle = $fp;
+    $options->addCustomHeader("content-length", filesize($sourceFilePath));
+
+    $ctx->executeQueryDirect($options);
+    fclose($fp);
+    print "File {$fileUrl} has been uploaded successfully\r\n";
+}
diff --git a/src/Runtime/Utilities/Requests.php b/src/Runtime/Utilities/Requests.php
index 2793e0ed..03299847 100644
--- a/src/Runtime/Utilities/Requests.php
+++ b/src/Runtime/Utilities/Requests.php
@@ -109,8 +109,10 @@ private static function init(RequestOptions $options)
         //set Post Body
         if(isset($options->Data))
             curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $options->Data);
-        if(is_resource($options->StreamHandle))
-            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $options->StreamHandle);
+        if(is_resource($options->StreamHandle)) {
+            $opt = $options->Method === HttpMethod::Get ? CURLOPT_FILE : CURLOPT_INFILE;
+            curl_setopt($ch, $opt, $options->StreamHandle);
+        }
         $options->addCustomHeader("content-length",strlen($options->Data));
         //custom HTTP headers
         if($options->Headers)