Webhook Auth Token

[rmandke13]

What problem would you like to solve? Please describe:
We would like the option to provide a bearer token with the webhook contact method. This would allow us to authenticate the POST request that is made from the webhook in our backend service.

Describe the solution you'd like:
We would like the option to provide a bearer token with the webhook contact method.

Describe alternatives you've considered:
We need to communicate between the two applications. GoAlerts and our service. We considered using a direct database hook but that would not be efficient.

[mastercactapus]

Two supported alternatives you can use:

• query parameter https://example.com/api?token=<token>)
• basic auth https://<user>:<token>@example.com/api (user could be blank/unused)

The latter will result in the token being passed in the Authorization header but in the Basic format instead of Bearer. Both would allow you to authenticate requests, however.

Would either of those suffice for your use case?

[rmandke13]

@mastercactapus Let me try these out today and get back to you.

[mastercactapus]

In addition to existing supported alternatives, closing as obsolete via #4224