[surreal5335]

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