# Cancel a pending ad avail
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If you inserted an ad avail the start time has not yet passed, you can cancel the insertion. No SCTE-35 message will be inserted.

**HTTP URL**

```
POST <IP address of Live node>/live_events/<ID of event>/cue_point
```

**Body of HTTP**

The XML body contains one `cue_point` element containing the following tag:


| Tag | Sub-tag | Type | Value | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| cancel\$1event\$1id |   | integer | The event ID of the original SCTE-35 request. | 

**Response**

The response includes a message that identifies the event ID of the original request.

## Cancel a Pending Ad Avail Example
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The following shows a request to cancel the insertion of a pending ad avail in the event with the ID 4. The original SCTE-35 ad avail has an ID of 38:

```
POST 10.4.136.96/live_events/4/cue_point
----------------------------------------
<cue_point>
  <cancel_event_id>38</cancel_event_id> 
</cue_point>
```

The following shows an example response for the request:

```
<response>
  <tag>13</tag>
  <event_id>5</event_id>
  <message>Canceled eventID [5]</message>
  <value>cue_point</value>
</response>
```