diff --git a/server/go/sigserver/client.pl b/server/go/sigserver/client.pl
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1219e717a
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+++ b/server/go/sigserver/client.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use LWP::UserAgent;
+use HTTP::Request;
+use HTTP::Request::Common;
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+my $keyid = "26F5ABDA";
+my $server = "http://localhost:2856";
+GetOptions("keyid=s" => \$keyid,
+           "server=s" => \$server)
+    or usage();
+
+$server =~ s!/$!!;
+
+my $file = shift or usage();
+-f $file or usage("$file isn't a file");
+
+my $json = do { undef $/; open(my $fh, $file); <$fh> };
+
+sub usage {
+    my $err = shift;
+    if ($err) {
+        print STDERR "Error: $err\n";
+    }
+    print STDERR "Usage: client.pl [OPTS] <file.json>\n";
+    print STDERR "Options:\n";
+    print STDERR "   --keyid=<keyid>\n";
+    print STDERR "   --server=http://host:port\n";
+    exit(1);
+}
+
+my $req = POST("$server/camli/sig/sign",
+               "Authorization" => "Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0", # test:test
+               Content => {
+                   "json" => $json,
+                   "keyid" => $keyid,
+               });
+
+my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
+my $res = $ua->request($req);
+unless ($res->is_success) {
+    die "Failure: " . $res->status_line;
+}
+
+print $res->content;
+
+
+
diff --git a/server/go/sigserver/test/test.json b/server/go/sigserver/test/test.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c9a369570
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/go/sigserver/test/test.json
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+{
+  "foo": "bar",
+  "blah": "baz"  }
+   
+