def _upload_client(self, localfile: str, remotefile: str, overwrite: bool = True, permission: str = '', **kwargs):
      """
      This method uploads a local file to the SAS servers file system.
      localfile  - path to the local file to upload 
      remotefile - path to remote file to create or overwrite
      overwrite  - overwrite the output file if it exists?
      permission - permissions to set on the new file. See SAS Filename Statement Doc for syntax
      """
      valid = self._sb.file_info(remotefile, quiet = True)
      
      if valid is None:
         remf = remotefile
      else:
         if valid == {}:
            remf = remotefile + self._sb.hostsep + localfile.rpartition(os.sep)[2]
         else:
            remf = remotefile
            if overwrite == False:
               return {'Success' : False, 
                       'LOG'     : "File "+str(remotefile)+" exists and overwrite was set to False. Upload was stopped."}

      try:
         fd = open(localfile, 'rb')
      except OSError as e:
         return {'Success' : False, 
                 'LOG'     : "File "+str(localfile)+" could not be opened. Error was: "+str(e)}

      port =  kwargs.get('port', 0)

      if port==0 and self.sascfg.tunnel:
         # we are using a tunnel; default to that port
         port = self.sascfg.tunnel

      if self.sascfg.ssh:
         if not self.sascfg.tunnel:
            host = self.sascfg.hostip #socks.gethostname()
         else:
            host = 'localhost'
      else:
         host = ''

      try:
         sock = socks.socket()
         if self.sascfg.tunnel:
            sock.bind(('localhost', port))
         else:
            sock.bind(('', port))
         port = sock.getsockname()[1]
      except OSError:
         return {'Success' : False, 
                 'LOG'     : "Error try to open a socket in the upload method. Call failed."}

      code = """
         filename saspydir '"""+remf+"""' recfm=F encoding=binary lrecl=1 permission='"""+permission+"""';
         filename sock socket '"""+host+""":"""+str(port)+"""' recfm=S encoding=binary lrecl=4096;

         data _null_; nb = -1;
         infile sock nbyte=nb; 
         file saspydir;
         input;
         put _infile_;
         run;

         filename saspydir;
         filename sock;\n"""

      sock.listen(1)
      self._asubmit(code, 'text')

      newsock = (0,0)
      try:
         newsock = sock.accept()
         while True:
            buf  = fd.read1(4096)
            sent = 0
            send = len(buf)
            blen = send
            if blen:
               while send:
                  try:
                     sent = 0
                     sent = newsock[0].send(buf[blen-send:blen])
                  except (BlockingIOError):
                     pass
                  send -= sent
            else:
               newsock[0].shutdown(socks.SHUT_RDWR)
               newsock[0].close()
               sock.close()
               fd.close()
               break
      except Exception as e:
         try:
            if newsock[0]:
               newsock[0].shutdown(socks.SHUT_RDWR)
               newsock[0].close()
         except Exception as e:
            pass
         sock.close()
         fd.close()
         ll = self.submit("", 'text')
         return {'Success' : False, 
                 'LOG'     : "Download was interupted. Returning the SAS log:\n\n"+ll['LOG']}

      ll = self.submit("", 'text')
      return {'Success' : True, 
              'LOG'     : ll['LOG']}