john_andersen
Tera Guru

Basic Authentication is the standard, out of the box authentication mechanism for SOAP Requests into ServiceNow.

A few months ago I ran into a scenario where a customer wanted to maintain a "Restricted Users" list for SOAP connections. They had assigned a specific user for their MID Server and they only wanted that user to authenticate from the MID Server itself.

If a user wasn't on the "restricted" list, they could connect without regard to location.

I report on this account to demonstrate how to customize your Basic Authentication mechanism in ServiceNow to provide custom filtering on SOAP and other non-interactive requests to your instance...

Read more here:
Limiting ServiceNow Basic Authentication