Working API call to update a study

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curl'http://devapi.opentreeoflife.org/phylesystem/v1/study/pg_2845?author_name=Jim+Allman&author_email=jim%40ibang.com&auth_token=de4916f3b38a737c2e90310db43df17760cb252b&starting_commit_SHA=2a442e80680e8785b1001a9e72d17bf234bec9d0&commit_msg=' 

-X PUT 

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-H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch' 
-H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8' 
-H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36' 
-H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8' 
-H 'Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01' 
-H 'Referer: http://devtree.opentreeoflife.org/curator/study/edit/pg_2845' 
-H 'Connection: keep-alive' 

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Suggested update call (please change author info and commit SHA in query-string):

curl 'http://api.opentreeoflife.org/phylesystem/v1/study/ot_99?author_name=Jim+Allman&author_email=jim%40ibang.com&auth_token=de4916f3b38a737c2e90310db43df17760cb252b&starting_commit_SHA=2a442e80680e8785b1001a9e72d17bf234bec9d0&commit_msg=' \ 
-X PUT \ 
-H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8' \
 --compressed \
 --data-binary @ot_99.json