# Stop message

This command will attempt to stop the delivery of a particular message. This command can only stop messages that have been scheduled for delivery in the future or may be queued within our router. It cannot stop messages that have already been delivered to an SMSC.

```
DELETE https://api.clickatell.com/rest/message/[message ID]
```

{% hint style="info" %}
The REST API may respond with various HTTP status codes. See the full list [here](broken://pages/g4LnbcQA4XA3TRKvmBGV).
{% endhint %}

### **JSON**

#### **Request**

```
DELETE /rest/message/360586640fe9846954897dffe6c13dfc HTTP/1.1
HOST: api.clickatell.com
X-Version: 1
Authorization: Bearer [Your Authorization Token]
Accept: application/json
```

#### **Response**

```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
 
{
   "data" : {
       "messageStatus" : "006",
       "description" : "User cancelled message delivery",
        "apiMessageId" : "360586640fe9846954897dffe6c13dfc"
    }
}
```

### **XML**

#### **Request**

{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```
DELETE /rest/message/360586640fe9846954897dffe6c13dfc HTTP/1.1
HOST: api.clickatell.com
X-Version: 1
Authorization: Bearer [Your Authorization Token]
Accept: application/xml
```

{% endcode %}

#### **Response**

{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<response>
    <data>
    <messageStatus>006</messageStatus>
    <description>User cancelled message delivery</description>
    <apiMessageId>b09e1b1bdb5a070c978f03b6836b955c</apiMessageId>
    </data>
</response>
```

{% endcode %}

### **Sample code**

#### **cURL**

```
msgId=""
 
authToken=""
 
curl -X DELETE \
-H "X-Version: 1" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $authToken" \
 
https://api.clickatell.com/rest/message/$msgId
```

#### **Python**

{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```
import httplib2, json
 
msgId = ""
 
authToken = ""
 
resp, content = httplib2.Http().request(
    "https://api.clickatell.com/rest/message/" + msgId,
    "DELETE",
    headers={
        "X-Version" : "1",
        "Accept" : "application/json",
        "Authorization" : "Bearer " + authToken
    }
)
```

{% endcode %}

#### **PHP**

{% code overflow="wrap" lineNumbers="true" %}

```
<?php
 
$msgId = "<api message ID>";
 
$authToken = "<place auth token here>";
 
$ch = curl_init();
 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,            "https://api.clickatell.com/rest/message/$msgId");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST,  "DELETE");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,     array(
    "X-Version: 1",
    "Accept: application/json",
    "Authorization: Bearer $authToken"
));
  
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
 
?>
```

{% endcode %}


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```
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```

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