Cakephp post request to webservice - web-services

Question

I have a web service that works fine with get requests but trying to use post it doesn't seem to work. I have this in my routes:
Router::connect("/products/service_add", array("controller"=>"products", "action" => "service_add", 'seller'=>true, "[method]" => "POST"));
Seller is like an admin. I also have ParseExtensions('xml'). My action is:
function seller_service_add() {
$this->log("hit", 'debug');
$hi = array("message"=>"hey");
$this->set(compact('hi'));
}
and the view is:
<product>
<?php echo $xml->serialize($hi); ?>
</product>
When I try to send a post to the API I just get a debug trace back with timer info. In the same script as I'm doing the post request I'm doing a get and when I run the script I can see the data passed by the API for the get but not for the post request.
The code I'm using to send the post is:
$ch = curl_init();
$data = array('Your' => 'Data');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost/<project>/products/service_add.xml");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($result);`
Any ideas on why this isn't working? Any help would be much appreciated.
Sorry if this is a bit verbose!
Update: I've added lines to spit stuff out to the cakephp debug log when actions are hit. I have one entry on the beforeFilter, this entry gets hit and I can see it in the log. The entry in the service_add action is not present in the log so I guess that the action is not being hit?

Answer 1

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
shouldn't this line be
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);