# Passing Query String When Streaming to iPhone/iPad

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/passing-query-string-when-streaming-to-iphone-ipad/34864
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Tags:** media-players-and-devices
**Created:** [May 24, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/passing-query-string-when-streaming-to-iphone-ipad/34864 "2010-05-24T16:29:28Z")
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### Author: ![Ran\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3da27b/32.png) [@Ran\_R](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ran_R)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/passing-query-string-when-streaming-to-iphone-ipad/34864/1 "2010-05-24T16:29:28Z")

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Is it possible to pass query string parameters to a url used for streaming to iPhone/iPad such as:

http://[wowza-address]:1935/vod/mp4:Extremists.m4v/playlist.m3u8

For example, I know it’s possible to pass query string parameters to a standard RTMP url such as:

rtmp://[wowza-address]:1935/vod/Extremists.flv?myparam=123

and then read it in the play method by parsing the stream name in teh params list.

However, is it possible to do something similar with the iPhone/iPad streaming URL? If so, where should the query string parameter be placed? after the video file name or after the playlist.m3u8?

Thanks,

Ran

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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 24, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/passing-query-string-when-streaming-to-iphone-ipad/34864/2 "2010-05-24T16:34:40Z")

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Put querystring after “playlist.m3u8”, and see this post for how to extract:

[http://community.wowza.com/t/-/68](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/68)

Richard