# How to get publisher / username using HttpProvider

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-publisher-username-using-httpprovider/39933>\
**Category:** Wowza Developer Dojo\
**Tags:** wowza-streaming-server-java-api\
**Created:** [August 20, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-publisher-username-using-httpprovider/39933 "2015-08-20T03:12:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![projjwal\_sen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b782af/32.png) [@projjwal\_sen](https://community.wowza.com/u/projjwal_sen)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-publisher-username-using-httpprovider/39933/1 "2015-08-20T03:12:59Z")

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Hi

I am using file based authentication for live application . Now i want to know the publisher / username with streamname .

e.g

http://[wowza]:8086/connectioncounts?flat

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**Author:** ![Michelle\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/michelle_b/32/394_2.png) [@Michelle\_B](https://community.wowza.com/u/Michelle_B)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-get-publisher-username-using-httpprovider/39933/2 "2015-08-28T15:50:18Z")

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Hi,

This is not natively supported in the current HTTPProvider for connection counts. You would need to create a custom [HTTPProvider](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-connection-counts-for-server-applications-application-instances-and-streams-with-an-http-provider) that would output this information.

Michelle