Customise Webhook response

[Jason]

[✅ Solution] Customize webhook response

Hi @Jason, thanks for your question! Currently, web hook receive URL endpoints will always return a 200 (during normal operations) with an empty response. At the moment, there is no way to customize the response or add extra logic there. As always, feel free to create a feature request for that, including the info whether you would need to customize the response in a static fashion (e.g. always return this body XY) or in a dynamic fashion (fetch data, execute logic, yield a response bo…

Following on from this I would like to be able to customise the response a webhook returns. The main reason for this is for authorisation as some systems require a certain response to be returned before thy will send data to the address and at the moment I can’t think of a way of making it work.

As specific example Slack will send data to a webhook using its Events API however it requires a handshake so when you first add the Tape Webhook address it will send:

{
    "token": "Jhj5dZrVaK7ZwHHjRyZWjbDl",
    "challenge": "3eZbrw1aBm2rZgRNFdxV2595E9CY3gmdALWMmHkvFXO7tYXAYM8P",
    "type": "url_verification"
}

and it expects the challenge to be returned with the 200 response.

You can still send data from Slack into Tape by building a / command app however it is not as nice/useful as an Event one.

There is a number of systems that require specific responses not just Slack.