# Error with Akamai Player

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/error-with-akamai-player/40716>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [September 22, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-with-akamai-player/40716 "2014-09-22T16:34:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![santosh\_shirahatti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@santosh\_shirahatti](https://community.wowza.com/u/santosh_shirahatti)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-with-akamai-player/40716/1 "2014-09-22T16:34:01Z")

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rtmp url works fine with wowza test player but gives error on Akamai player.

IDENT request failed with error: HTTP request error

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**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-with-akamai-player/40716/2 "2014-09-25T23:04:22Z")

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Hi,

I believe that error is related to a port no being open that the Akamai player needs for HTTP, that would suggest port 80

is also required to be open as well as 1935.

Daren

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**Author:** ![santosh\_shirahatti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@santosh\_shirahatti](https://community.wowza.com/u/santosh_shirahatti)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 10:45am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-with-akamai-player/40716/3 "2014-10-07T10:45:20Z")

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Hi Daren,

Port 80 is open. Here’s the result of nmap

nmap -p 80 206.190.150.11

Starting Nmap 6.46 ( [http://nmap.org](http://nmap.org) ) at 2014-10-07 11:44 PDT

Nmap scan report for [206.190.150.11.static.midphase.com](http://206.190.150.11.static.midphase.com) (206.190.150.11)

Host is up (0.035s latency).

PORT STATE SERVICE

80/tcp open http