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@@ -94,6 +94,17 @@ The HTTP service has resources in the following form:
 /{label}/{application}-{profile}.properties
 ----
 
+For example:
+
+----
+curl localhost:8888/foo/development
+curl localhost:8888/foo/development/master
+curl localhost:8888/foo/development,db/master
+curl localhost:8888/foo-development.yml
+curl localhost:8888/foo-db.properties
+curl localhost:8888/master/foo-db.properties
+----
+
 where `application` is injected as the `spring.config.name` in the `SpringApplication` (what is normally `application` in a regular Spring Boot app), `profile` is an active profile (or comma-separated list of properties), and `label` is an optional git label (defaults to `master`.)
 
 Spring Cloud Config Server pulls configuration for remote clients from various sources. The following example gets configuration from a git repository (which must be provided), as shown in the following example: