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title: Outbound SOAP web service
description: The SOAP Message module can be used to develop, prototype, and save outbound SOAP messages that can be reused in business rules and scripts.
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product: Web Services
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last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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# Outbound SOAP web service

The SOAP Message module can be used to develop, prototype, and save outbound SOAP messages that can be reused in business rules and scripts.

You can use outbound SOAP messages in scripts using the SOAPMessageV2 API and the SOAPResponseV2 API. Examples detailing how to script outbound SOAP are available.

-   **[Outbound SOAP video tutorial](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/api-reference/web-services/r_OutboundSOAPVideoTutorial.md)**  
The following video tutorial demonstrates how to configure outbound SOAP web service messages to consume third-party web services from an instance.
-   **[SOAP message](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/api-reference/web-services/c_SOAPMessage.md)**  
Information needed to send SOAP requests is stored in SOAP message records.
-   **[Connectivity details](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/api-reference/web-services/c_ConnectivityDetails.md)**  
For SOAP requests initiated from your ServiceNow instance to be able to successfully communicate with the web service provider inside a remote network, the ServiceNow instance must have HTTP or HTTPS access to the SOAP endpoint at the provider.
-   **[Outbound SOAP security](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/api-reference/web-services/c_OutboundSOAPSecurity.md)**  
You can authenticate outbound SOAP messages using several different security protocols.
-   **[Configure SOAP with a proxy](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/api-reference/web-services/r_ConfigureSOAPWithAProxy.md)**  
Certain properties provide support for SOAP requests to use a web proxy server.
-   **[Scripting outbound SOAP](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/api-reference/web-services/r_ScriptingOutboundSOAP.md)**  
You can send outbound SOAP requests from any place in the ServiceNow AI Platform where scripting is allowed.

**Parent Topic:**[Outbound web services](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/api-reference/web-services/outbound-web-services.md)