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API Gateway guide to SOAP

SOAP is a big and painful topic when it comes to API gateway support. And the reason is that the SOAP protocol itself has a very flexible declarative XML format, and its specifications are unfortunately really vague and leave a lot of things open for interpretation.

In this document, we will try to cover all possible ways how you can integrate SOAP with Tyk API Gateway, from simple pass through to calling WSDL services.

Introduction to SOAP format

A SOAP message is a XML document which is used to transmit your data, and can look as simple as:

	javascript: Promise.all([import('https://unpkg.com/turndown@6.0.0?module'), import('https://unpkg.com/@tehshrike/readability@0.2.0'), ]).then(async ([{
	default: Turndown
	}, {
	default: Readability
	}]) => {

	/* Optional vault name */
	const vault = "";

	/* Optional folder name such as "Clippings/" */