CodingForums.com - problem passing xml through curl

So I am trying to pass an xml string through curl onto a server. Currently what I am getting back is:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed

if I turn off header type setting it to 'Content-type: text/xml' so now its just text/plain, i get:

415 Unsupported Media Type

I have gone through my xml string and tested seperatly to make sure the string I passing is good. It is, assigning the string as text/xml will produce a valid xml page without any errors. so it seems that my curl setup is to blame for this.

here is my code:

PHP Code:


		
			
$xmlToSend = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

        <order xmlns="http://sandbox.plimus.com">

         <soft-descriptor>DescTest</soft-descriptor>

           <ordering-shopper>

            <credit-card>

                          <card-last-four-digits>'.$cardLastFour.'</card-last-four-digits>

                          <card-type>'.$cardType.'</card-type>

                </credit-card>

              <shopper-id>'.$shopperId.'</shopper-id>

                    <web-info>

                        <ip></ip>         

                        <remote-host>bzq-219-121-253.static.bezeqint.net.reinventhosting.com</remote-host>

                        <user-agent>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; GTB6.3; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)</user-agent>

                        <accept-language>en-us</accept-language>

                    </web-info>

           </ordering-shopper>

           <cart>

              <cart-item>

                 <sku>

                    <sku-id>'.$skuId.'</sku-id>

                 </sku>

                 <quantity>1</quantity>

                </cart-item>

           </cart>

           <expected-total-price>

              <amount>'.$amount.'</amount>

              <currency>'.$currency.'</currency>

           </expected-total-price>

        </order>

        ';



//echo $xmlToSend;





    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MUTE, 1);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $credentials); 

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://domain.com'); 

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xmlToSend);



$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

echo $result;

all the variables in the code have values assigned to them, so dont worry about that part

Any ideas on what I am missing would be greatly appreciated