# Change relative URL's in HLS

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/change-relative-urls-in-hls/38479>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 18, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-relative-urls-in-hls/38479 "2013-04-18T14:31:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Brian\_Osborne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@Brian\_Osborne](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brian_Osborne)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-relative-urls-in-hls/38479/1 "2013-04-18T14:31:42Z")

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Wowza puts in relative URL’s in the HLS playlist’s that are generated to retrieve the variant playlists, key files, and media segments. Is there any way to prepend a fixed URL for all of those? We are going to serve these files thru a CDN and need a way to insert absolute URL’s, and control the protocol (http or https). Thanks

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-relative-urls-in-hls/38479/2 "2013-04-18T19:37:51Z")

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You can switch to absolute URLs with this Property setting:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-switch-between-absolute-and-relative-urls-in-apple-http-live-streaming-playlists](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-switch-between-absolute-and-relative-urls-in-apple-http-live-streaming-playlists)

Richard

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-relative-urls-in-hls/38479/3 "2013-04-18T20:49:12Z")

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No, I checked around to be sure, that is not supported at present.

Richard

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Osborne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@Brian\_Osborne](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brian_Osborne)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-relative-urls-in-hls/38479/4 "2013-04-18T14:54:59Z")

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Thanks. That turns absolute on for variant playlists only, and I’m not sure where we can change what absolute URL is used. I know Wowza added features for Wowza acting as a CDN origin in 3.5, but I think the inability to control the prepended URL here should be added. We need to delivery the main playlist, variant playlist, and key files over HTTPS, and we need to delivery the TS chunk over HTTP. Therefore we need to specify absolute URL’s, including the protocol, for all of them in the manifests.

Is there a way to do this in the API? Intercept how the playlist is generated and inject it ourselves?

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**Author:** ![Troy\_Hammonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@Troy\_Hammonds](https://community.wowza.com/u/Troy_Hammonds)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-relative-urls-in-hls/38479/5 "2017-01-13T13:36:45Z")

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I know this is an old thread but I would like to have this ability. Does the current wowza support the ability to set absolute path hostname in the chunklist.m3u8 file.