curl post vs. normal post?

Situation: I'm building an API with cakePHP which holds user-accounts.
I'd like to have multiple websites authenticating using this API by
sending a post-request to the api and receiving the proper xml with
user-info.

To accomodate routing, I've added the following rule in routes.php.

Router::connect('/:channel/:version/:controller/:action/*',
array('prefix' => 'api', 'api' => true),
array('channel' => '[0-9]+'),
array('version'=>'[0-9]+\.[0-9]+'));

I've also created a form that holds all the necessary information
(username + password) and tested this. This works. However, I'd like
to use cURL to form a post-request & receive the information. For
this, I created the code below.

$api_url = 'http://localhost/api-test/1/0.2/users/auth.xml';
$api_token = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$url = $api_url.'?token='.$api_token;
$data = array('user' => $user, 'password' => $password);
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$error = curl_error($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);

This strangely doesn't work. The connection is working, but the
routing appears to be failing, as the controller 'api-test' is called
(which doesn't exist, this is my main-folder of my test-application)
instead of the user-controller. I'm sure I must be missing something,
but I can't figure out what that is.. I'm sure it's something between
cURL and cakePHP, as a normal form works as intended. Anyone got any
advice?

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