# Using Kakfa With A Single Port (443)

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/using-kakfa-with-a-single-port-443/3991>\
**Category:** REST Proxy\
**Created:** [25 January 2022 20:21 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/using-kakfa-with-a-single-port-443/3991 "2022-01-25T20:21:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![finepointcgi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/finepointcgi/32/1500_2.png) [@finepointcgi](https://forum.confluent.io/u/finepointcgi)\
**Post date:** [25 January 2022 20:21 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/using-kakfa-with-a-single-port-443/3991/1 "2022-01-25T20:21:11Z")

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Hey Guys,

I have a quick question about using Kafka with a single port in this case 443. Is this possible? I know some people have said you could use Kafka REST proxy or IIS to route the data however in my testing it doesn’t seem to be doing what I expect.

Heres the rundown,

I have a tree like structure here | \< this guy aggregates all the data for everyone  
from here I have two or more | | middle guys that house lots of topics and information that everyone is interested in.  
Then I have clients here that | | | produce and consume that data from the topics  
This all works and I have 0 issues.

The pain point comes in from the client I can only communicate though 443 which brings me out to here. How if possible can I route all of my cluster data though one port if thats even possible? I figured I would use the REST proxy for this however I haven’t gotten it to work.

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**Author:** ![mmuehlbeyer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/mmuehlbeyer/32/1088_2.png) [@mmuehlbeyer](https://forum.confluent.io/u/mmuehlbeyer)\
**Post date:** [26 January 2022 06:53 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/using-kakfa-with-a-single-port-443/3991/2 "2022-01-26T06:53:30Z")

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hey @finepointcgi

rest proxy might work for your use case.

could you provide some how you’ve installed and configured the rest proxy?

best,  
michael