# streaming engine appends session ID to chunklist **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [July 1, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-engine-appends-session-id-to-chunklist/43288 "2016-07-01T17:45:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![George\_Parniev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@George\_Parniev](https://community.wowza.com/u/George_Parniev)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-engine-appends-session-id-to-chunklist/43288/1 "2016-07-01T17:45:04Z")
hello We have Wowza streaming engine 4.2 installed Our playlist.m38u for a live application contains the following strings: > #EXTM3U > > #EXT-X-VERSION:3 > > #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=2289245,CODECS=“avc1.77.40,mp4a.40.2”,RESOLUTION=1920x1080 > > chunklist\_w1125079258.m3u8 > > And the number appended after the chunklist is always different. our provider asked us to have it always the same. Is it possible to remove the ID appended to the chunklist and have just chunklist.m3u8 in the playlist file? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Shields](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/paul_shields/32/390_2.png) [@Paul\_Shields](https://community.wowza.com/u/Paul_Shields)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-engine-appends-session-id-to-chunklist/43288/2 "2016-07-27T14:40:02Z")
Hi, The session ID is there to enable all clients to have their own streams. It is possible to configure Wowza as an HTTP Origin server and in that case the session IDs are not used. This is commonly used with CDNs so that content can be cached for all clients. Note that enabling it will disable some services that rely on session state. You can read more about this mode [in this article](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-a-wowza-server-as-an-http-caching-origin). Regards, Paul