I am trying to create a soap client by passing a url that is hosted on my local machine, my dev environment and I keep getting this error. I use to be able to make this call and it worked just fine.

Basically all I am doing is this

$client = new SoapClient('http://virtual.website.com:81/api/?wsdl');

If I go to the url in a browser it comes up, so I know it is the right location. On the Magento forums there are some similar posts but I don't know that this is a Magento specific problem. Everything they mention as a solution I already have. They say to edit the hosts file for example 127.0.0.1 website.com

I already have this since it is setup as a virtual host.

Here is the error in my error_log

[Fri Jun 04 12:30:37 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error:  SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://virtual.website.com:81/api/soap/?wsdl' : XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document\n in /usr/local/sites/virtual.website.com/www/CUSTOMSCRIPTS/removeProductImages.php on line 6
[Fri Jun 04 12:30:37 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Stack trace:
[Fri Jun 04 12:30:37 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   1. {main}() /usr/local/sites/virtual.website.com/www/CUSTOMSCRIPTS/removeProductImages.php:0
[Fri Jun 04 12:30:37 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP   2. SoapClient->SoapClient(*uninitialized*) /usr/local/sites/virtual.website.com/www/CUSTOMSCRIPTS/removeProductImages.php:6