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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ It provides the following REST actions:
   For example `curl -f -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/n-triples' --data-binary "@MY_FILE.nt" http://localhost:7878/`
   will add the N-Triples file MY_FILE.nt to the server repository. [Turtle](https://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/), [TriG](https://www.w3.org/TR/trig/), [N-Triples](https://www.w3.org/TR/n-triples/), [N-Quads](https://www.w3.org/TR/n-quads/) and [RDF XML](https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/) are supported.
 * `/query` allows to evaluate SPARQL queries against the server repository following the [SPARQL 1.1 Protocol](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/#query-operation).
-  For example `curl -f -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/sparql-query' --data 'SELECT * WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } LIMIT 10' http://localhost:7878/query`.
+  For example `curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/sparql-query' --data 'SELECT * WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } LIMIT 10' http://localhost:7878/query`.
   This action supports content negotiation and could return [Turtle](https://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/), [N-Triples](https://www.w3.org/TR/n-triples/), [RDF XML](https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/), [SPARQL Query Results XML Format](http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-XMLres/) and [SPARQL Query Results JSON Format](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-results-json/).