fileReader.readAsBinaryString to upload files

Trying to use fileReader.readAsBinaryString to upload a PNG file to the server via AJAX, stripped down code (fileObject is the object containing info on my file);

var fileReader = new FileReader();

fileReader.onload = function(e) {
    var xmlHttpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
    //Some AJAX-y stuff - callbacks, handlers etc.
    xmlHttpRequest.open("POST", '/pushfile', true);
    var dashes = '--';
    var boundary = 'aperturephotoupload';
    var crlf = "\r\n";

    //Post with the correct MIME type (If the OS can identify one)
    if ( fileObject.type == '' ){
        filetype = 'application/octet-stream';
    } else {
        filetype = fileObject.type;
    }

    //Build a HTTP request to post the file
    var data = dashes + boundary + crlf + "Content-Disposition: form-data;" + "name=\"file\";" + "filename=\"" + unescape(encodeURIComponent(fileObject.name)) + "\"" + crlf + "Content-Type: " + filetype + crlf + crlf + e.target.result + crlf + dashes + boundary + dashes;

    xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data;boundary=" + boundary);

    //Send the binary data
    xmlHttpRequest.send(data);
}

fileReader.readAsBinaryString(fileObject);

Examining the first few lines of a file before upload (using VI) gives me

The same file after upload shows

So it looks like a formatting/encoding issue somewhere, I tried using a simple UTF8 encode function on the raw binary data

    function utf8encode(string) {
        string = string.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n");
        var utftext = "";

        for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {

            var c = string.charCodeAt(n);

            if (c < 128) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
            }
            else if((c > 127)