If `index.html` does not exist in the directory from which the example
is invoked, the fopen(upload, "rb") invocation in `setup` would fail,
returning NULL. This value is subsequently passed as the FILE* argument
of the `fread` invocation in the `read_callback` function, which is the
actual cause of the crash (apparently `fread` assumes that argument to
be non-null).
In addition, mitigate some possible crashes of similar origin.