solved my own problem:

I replaced the CUSTOMREQUEST option with:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xmlData);

and now it works - CUSTOMREQUEST must kill all the other headers that are
set somehow

That'll teach me to try and be smart!

Cheers

LezL

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