# Using token authorization with the hosted or embedded Wowza Player

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/using-token-authorization-with-the-hosted-or-embedded-wowza-player/50103>\
**Category:** Wowza Player\
**Created:** [November 10, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/using-token-authorization-with-the-hosted-or-embedded-wowza-player/50103 "2017-11-10T17:58:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Marc\_Richards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Marc\_Richards](https://community.wowza.com/u/Marc_Richards)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/using-token-authorization-with-the-hosted-or-embedded-wowza-player/50103/1 "2017-11-10T17:58:12Z")

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Hi,

I would like to secure a stream served from the Wowza Streaming Cloud using token authorization, however according to [this page](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-protect-a-wowza-cdn-stream-target-with-token-authorization) I cannot used token authorization if I am going to use the embedded Wowza Player:

“Token authorization works with third-party players. It doesn’t work with a player created in the Wowza Streaming Cloud live stream workflow and embedded in a hosted or third-party webpage”

Why is that the case? Am I missing something? If I serve a page to a user with the embedded player code that has the token appended to the url will it not work?

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**Author:** ![Tobias\_Schneider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@Tobias\_Schneider](https://community.wowza.com/u/Tobias_Schneider)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 9:19am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/using-token-authorization-with-the-hosted-or-embedded-wowza-player/50103/2 "2018-09-18T09:19:23Z")

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I have the same problem. Is there any solution?

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**Author:** ![Hasan\_Ali1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hasan\_Ali1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Hasan_Ali1)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/using-token-authorization-with-the-hosted-or-embedded-wowza-player/50103/3 "2019-04-01T10:23:49Z")

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Also need soluation