# Act as oauth client

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/act-as-oauth-client/6840>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [August 2, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/act-as-oauth-client/6840 "2020-08-02T15:13:54Z")\
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can kong act as client to external api, “server to server”. i need a single point to call external api with configuration of ssl and oauth2. The callers of external api(can be several programs) have not to deal with ssl and oauth token… a simple http call to a proxy with external api. Can Kong play the role of this proxy