International Business Machines Corporation
Generic and configurable technique for webhook validation with arbitrary applications

Abstract:

Techniques are disclosed for validating a webhook post by a receiver. The receiver receives an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request associated with the webhook post from an application. The receiver extracts at least one parameter from the HTTP request, to be used for validation of the webhook post. The receiver, obtains, based on the at least one parameter, configuration information associated with validating the webhook post from a configuration template, wherein the configuration template comprises configuration information associated with validating webhook posts from each of a plurality of applications. The receiver then validates the webhook post based on the configuration information.