# Calling webservice from view event failed

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, scripting\
**Created:** [August 29, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/calling-webservice-from-view-event-failed/110275 "2025-08-29T13:18:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/calling-webservice-from-view-event-failed/110275/3 "2025-08-29T14:12:58Z")

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In the script console, the outgoing HTTP call is being made by your _local_ computer, wherever you're running the designer. To the operating system, it's an HTTP call made by your local _user_, since it's just a standard program running as you.

**Everywhere** in Perspective, your scripts are actually running on the Ignition gateway.  
That means the outgoing HTTP call is coming from wherever Ignition is actually installed, and by default is running as a limited privilege "service" user. If the host OS is Windows, it's running as the special 'service' account `LOCAL_SYSTEM` that has limited access to external networks.

In other words: Engage with your IT department to see why the host that runs the gateway cannot reach the other resource.

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