diff --git a/catalyst/api-bundle/Command/TestCommand.php b/catalyst/api-bundle/Command/TestCommand.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..18ea68f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/catalyst/api-bundle/Command/TestCommand.php
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Catalyst\APIBundle\Command;
+
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Encoder\EncoderFactoryInterface;
+
+use Catalyst\APIBundle\Connector\Client as APIClient;
+
+
+class TestCommand extends Command
+{
+    protected function configure()
+    {
+        $this->setName('api:test-connector')
+            ->setDescription('Test API connector.')
+            ->setHelp('Test API Connector.')
+            ->addArgument('protocol', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'protocol')
+            ->addArgument('server', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'server')
+            ->addArgument('api_key', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'api_key')
+            ->addArgument('secret_key', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'secret_key');
+    }
+
+    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
+    {
+        $protocol = $input->getArgument('protocol');
+        $server = $input->getArgument('server');
+        $api_key = $input->getArgument('api_key');
+        $secret_key = $input->getArgument('secret_key');
+
+        $api = new APIClient($server, $api_key, $secret_key);
+        $api->setProtocol($protocol);
+
+        $api->get('/capi/test');
+    }
+}
diff --git a/catalyst/api-bundle/Connector/Client.php b/catalyst/api-bundle/Connector/Client.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..259d72d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/catalyst/api-bundle/Connector/Client.php
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Catalyst\APIBundle\Connector;
+
+use DateTime;
+
+class Client
+{
+    const HEADER_API_KEY        = 'X-Cata-API-Key';
+    const HEADER_SIGNATURE      = 'X-Cata-Signature';
+    const HEADER_DATE           = 'X-Cata-Date';
+
+    const DATE_FORMAT           = 'D, d M Y H:i:s T';
+
+    const USER_AGENT            = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36';
+
+    protected $protocol;
+    protected $server;
+    protected $port;
+    protected $api_key;
+    protected $secret_key;
+
+    protected $curl;
+
+    public function __construct($server, $api_key, $secret_key)
+    {
+        $this->protocol = 'https';
+        $this->port = null;
+
+        $this->server = $server;
+        $this->api_key = $api_key;
+        $this->secret_key = $secret_key;
+        $this->curl = curl_init();
+    }
+
+    public function __destruct()
+    {
+        curl_close($this->curl);
+    }
+
+    public function setProtocol($protocol)
+    {
+        if ($protocol != 'http' && $protocol != 'https')
+            return $this;
+
+        $this->protocol = $protocol;
+        return $this;
+    }
+
+    public function get($url, $params = [])
+    {
+        $date = new DateTime();
+        $date_string = $date->format(self::DATE_FORMAT);
+
+        $headers = $this->generateHeaders('GET', $url, $date_string);
+
+        // build url
+        if ($this->port == null)
+            $full_url = $this->protocol . '://' . $this->server . $url;
+        else
+            $full_url = $this->protocol . '://' . $this->server . ':' . $this->port . $url;
+
+        error_log($full_url);
+
+        // curl
+        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
+        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_URL, $full_url);
+        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
+        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, self::USER_AGENT);
+        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 0);
+
+        $res = curl_exec($this->curl);
+        error_log($res);
+    }
+
+    public function post($params)
+    {
+    }
+
+    protected function generateSignature($method, $url, $date_string)
+    {
+        $creds = [
+            $method,
+            $url,
+            $date_string,
+            $this->secret_key,
+        ];
+        $sig_source = implode('|', $creds);
+
+        $raw_sig = hash_hmac('sha1', $sig_source, $this->secret_key, true);
+        $enc_sig = base64_encode($raw_sig);
+
+        return $enc_sig;
+    }
+
+    protected function generateHeaders($method, $url, $date_string)
+    {
+        $sig = $this->generateSignature($method, $url, $date_string);
+
+        $headers = [
+			self::HEADER_API_KEY . ': ' . $this->api_key,
+            self::HEADER_SIGNATURE . ': ' . $sig,
+            self::HEADER_DATE . ': ' . $date_string,
+        ];
+
+        return $headers;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/catalyst/api-bundle/Security/APIKeyAuthenticator.php b/catalyst/api-bundle/Security/APIKeyAuthenticator.php
index a21c2ac6..bb3e4c14 100644
--- a/catalyst/api-bundle/Security/APIKeyAuthenticator.php
+++ b/catalyst/api-bundle/Security/APIKeyAuthenticator.php
@@ -35,11 +35,6 @@ class APIKeyAuthenticator implements SimplePreAuthenticatorInterface, Authentica
         $this->em = $em;
     }
 
-    protected function getSecretKey($api_key)
-    {
-        return 'sldkfjlksdjflksdjflksdjflsjf';
-    }
-
     protected function validateSignature($creds, $secret_key)
     {
         $elements = [
diff --git a/config/services.yaml b/config/services.yaml
index 309d2129..00d35755 100644
--- a/config/services.yaml
+++ b/config/services.yaml
@@ -87,4 +87,8 @@ services:
     Catalyst\APIBundle\Command\UserCreateCommand:
         arguments:
             $em: "@doctrine.orm.entity_manager"
-        tags: ['console.command']
+        tags: ['console.command'] 
+
+    Catalyst\APIBundle\Command\TestCommand:
+        tags: ['console.command'] 
+