diff --git a/modules/rest-api/pages/rest-set-up-services.adoc b/modules/rest-api/pages/rest-set-up-services.adoc
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--- a/modules/rest-api/pages/rest-set-up-services.adoc
+++ b/modules/rest-api/pages/rest-set-up-services.adoc
@@ -50,7 +50,15 @@ An incorrectly expressed service-name returns `400 Bad Request`, and an error me
 == Examples
 
 The following example establishes data paths for the Data, Index, and Eventing Services.
-Commas in the list of service-names have been encoded.
+
+---
+curl -X POST  -H "Content-Type: application/json"  http://10.144.220.101:8091/node/controller/setupServices 
+-d '{"services":"kv,n1ql,index,eventing"}' 
+-u Administrator:password
+---
+
+Or you may choose to URI encode the parameters to ensure the string is not malformed by transport layers.
+The below example applies URI encoding to the commas.
 
 ----
 curl -X POST http://10.144.220.101:8091/node/controller/setupServices \