i know this is an old post, but i ran in to this page looking for an answer.
application/soap+xml
is the content-type passed when using SOAP 1.2,
text/xml
is used with SOAP 1.1,
something like this should do the trick,
$client = new SoapClient("some.wsdl", array('soap_version' => SOAP_1_1));
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