diff --git a/plugins/OStatus/actions/hostmeta.php b/plugins/OStatus/actions/hostmeta.php
index 6d35ada6c6..8ca07f9165 100644
--- a/plugins/OStatus/actions/hostmeta.php
+++ b/plugins/OStatus/actions/hostmeta.php
@@ -35,14 +35,13 @@ class HostMetaAction extends Action
         $url = common_local_url('userxrd');
         $url.= '?uri={uri}';
 
-        $xrd = new XRD();
-        
         $xrd = new XRD();
         $xrd->host = $domain;
         $xrd->links[] = array('rel' => Discovery::LRDD_REL,
                               'template' => $url,
                               'title' => array('Resource Descriptor'));
 
+        header('Content-type: application/xrd+xml');
         print $xrd->toXML();
     }
 }
diff --git a/plugins/OStatus/lib/xrdaction.php b/plugins/OStatus/lib/xrdaction.php
index 71c70b96e8..d8cf648d6d 100644
--- a/plugins/OStatus/lib/xrdaction.php
+++ b/plugins/OStatus/lib/xrdaction.php
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class XrdAction extends Action
         $xrd->links[] = array('rel' => 'http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe',
                               'template' => $url );
 
-        header('Content-type: text/xml');
+        header('Content-type: application/xrd+xml');
         print $xrd->toXML();
     }