# Starting and stoping live streams programmatically

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-and-stoping-live-streams-programmatically/36872>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** server-administration\
**Created:** [December 16, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-and-stoping-live-streams-programmatically/36872 "2011-12-16T13:00:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Z\_Tatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Z\_Tatic](https://community.wowza.com/u/Z_Tatic)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-and-stoping-live-streams-programmatically/36872/21 "2011-12-19T16:48:19Z")

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> We are not currently documenting and supporting the query parameters and POST data of today’s stream manager. There is a good chance it will change in the future. So that is why we don’t approach it this way. It is best to build your own HTTPProvider. Then you can control the interface and we do not plan to change this API moving forward.
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> I hope this helps to clarify the reason for pushing to the HTTPProvider method.
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> Charlie

Yes that answered my questions, thank you very much. I’ll look into the HTTPProvider method now.

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