# How to switch to absolute url for .ts files in apple http live streaming

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-switch-to-absolute-url-for-ts-files-in-apple-http-live-streaming/39527>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** media-players-and-devices\
**Created:** [November 15, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-switch-to-absolute-url-for-ts-files-in-apple-http-live-streaming/39527 "2012-11-15T23:18:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nelson\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nelson\_L](https://community.wowza.com/u/Nelson_L)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-switch-to-absolute-url-for-ts-files-in-apple-http-live-streaming/39527/1 "2012-11-15T23:18:18Z")

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Hi,

I’ve followed the instructions in [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)

but it turned out that only the chunklist.m3u8 in the playlist.m3u8 was in absolute url, but not the .ts files in chunklist.m3u8

What should I do so that absolute url is used for those media segment in chunklist.m3u8?

Thank you.

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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:** [November 16, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-switch-to-absolute-url-for-ts-files-in-apple-http-live-streaming/39527/2 "2012-11-16T13:51:39Z")

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There is no other Property setting like that, the .ts files are relative to the chunklist url

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:** [November 16, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-switch-to-absolute-url-for-ts-files-in-apple-http-live-streaming/39527/3 "2012-11-16T13:52:05Z")

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Why do you need that?

Richard

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**Author:** ![Nelson\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nelson\_L](https://community.wowza.com/u/Nelson_L)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-switch-to-absolute-url-for-ts-files-in-apple-http-live-streaming/39527/4 "2012-11-18T23:52:04Z")

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Hi,

We are developing a DRM for live HLS which basically the player will first contact the key server for authentication, and then be redirected to wowza.

And we found that in android, if relative path is used, the segments are treated as related to the key server instead of the wowza.

I know there are mechanisms in wowza for cooperating with the key server, but considering that the DRM has to work with other hardware HLS encoder, these may not be a good option for us.

Thanks,

Nelson