Authentication

We encourage you to protect your endpoint by requiring one of the following authentication methods:

• Custom Header
• Basic Auth

Custom Header Authentication

Wherewolf’s webhook requests can be configured to include a custom header, you can use this to authenticate the request.

When configured, the request will contain the custom field and custom value.

Example:

curl -X POST \
  __YOUR_URL__ \
  -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H '__CUSTOM_AUTH_FIELD__: __CUSTOM_AUTH_VALUE__' \
  -d '{
    ...payload...
  }'

Basic Auth Authentication

Basic Auth method is supported for Wherewolf’s webhook requests.

When configured, the request will contain a Authorization header with the base64 representation of a given username:password.

Example using username an_user and password a_password:

curl -X POST \
  __YOUR_URL__ \
  -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YW5fdXNlcjphX3Bhc3N3b3Jk' \
  -d '{
    ...payload...
  }'

For more details about Basic Auth:

MDN Web Docs HTTP authentication