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title: Sideband Clients
description: Use sideband clients to query the PingAccess Sideband API for authorization and request and response modification for API gateways. This lets PingAccess supply access decisions to gateway tools.
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version: 9.0
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revdate: April 11, 2025
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# Sideband Clients

Use sideband clients to query the PingAccess Sideband API for authorization and request and response modification for API gateways. This lets PingAccess supply access decisions to gateway tools.

This section covers the following:

* [Adding sideband clients](pa_adding_sideband_clients.html)

* [Editing sideband clients](pa_editing_sideband_clients.html)

* [Deleting sideband clients](pa_deleting_sideband_clients.html)