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Well, my suspicions were confirmed: I am an idiot 🙂
The method I outline in my question is, in fact, correct — it wasn’t working because I’d forgotten to include enctype="multipart/form-data" on the form.
Anyway, I’ll leave this question here, just incase other people have the same problem.
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I also had issues with file not really posted to server when name attribute was not specified in input tag
<input type="file" name="somename">
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