# m3u8 custom headers/tags

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/m3u8-custom-headers-tags/33778>\
**Category:** Wowza Developer Dojo\
**Tags:** wowza-streaming-server-java-api\
**Created:** [May 30, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/m3u8-custom-headers-tags/33778 "2012-05-30T17:44:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![I\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@I\_A](https://community.wowza.com/u/I_A)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/m3u8-custom-headers-tags/33778/1 "2012-05-30T17:44:00Z")

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Can we develop server-side module to add custom headers/tags to m3u8 playlist and change/remove existing headers/tags ?

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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:** [May 30, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/m3u8-custom-headers-tags/33778/2 "2012-05-30T16:45:43Z")

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This is not supported at present. What are you trying to accomplish?

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:** [May 31, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/m3u8-custom-headers-tags/33778/3 "2012-05-31T16:38:40Z")

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No, there is not a way to do this at present. Maybe in the future, but I don’t know if or when.

Richard

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**Author:** ![I\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@I\_A](https://community.wowza.com/u/I_A)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/m3u8-custom-headers-tags/33778/4 "2012-05-31T12:47:15Z")

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We have iOS client that allows play HLS encrypted with PlayReady and also have library that allows us to encrypt “.ts” chunks , but in m3u8 playlist we need add custom tags/headers and change/remove some existing .

Do you plan support HLS in DRM AddOn ?

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Vitale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Michael\_Vitale](https://community.wowza.com/u/Michael_Vitale)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/m3u8-custom-headers-tags/33778/5 "2015-06-03T13:58:06Z")

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Richard,

Checking in on this one. I’m using the latest Streaming Engine and need a way to customize M3U8 headers. As a quick example:

#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID=“subs”,NAME=“English”,FORCED=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,URI=“subtitlelist\_leng.m3u8”,LANGUAGE=“eng”

I want to update FORCED=NO to FORCED=YES. Is there support for this in 4.1.x?