Generic and configurable technique for webhook validation with arbitrary applications

An apparatus configured to provide an application integration platform to validate a webhook post from a web application to a subscribing application, the apparatus comprising:

• means for receiving, via a network, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request associated with the webhook post from the web application to the subscribing application, wherein the webhook post pertains to an event type specified by the subscribing application when registering a webhook via a web application programming interface (API) associated with the web application, wherein the webhook post is triggered by occurrence of an event matching the specified event type, wherein the webhook post comprises a post to the registered webhook;
• means for extracting at least one parameter from the HTTP request, to be used for validation of the webhook post, wherein the at least one parameter indicates an identity of the web application;
• means for using a webhook validation library via a library API and based on the identity of the web application, obtaining from a configuration template configuration information associated with the web application for validating the webhook post, wherein the configuration information specifies a validation scheme for the registered webhook, wherein the application integration platform is configured to validate webhook posts from a plurality of different web applications to a plurality of different subscribing applications using a plurality of different validation schemes;
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• means for forwarding, via the network, the webhook post to the subscribing application for processing upon successfully validating the webhook post based on the obtained configuration information and the validation scheme.

A computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code of an application integration platform embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code executable to perform an operation to validate a webhook post from a web application to a subscribing application, the operation comprising:

• receiving, via a network, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request associated with the webhook post from the web application to the subscribing application, wherein the webhook post pertains to an event type specified by the subscribing application when registering a webhook via a web application programming interface (API) associated with the web application, wherein the webhook post is triggered by occurrence of an event matching the specified event type, wherein the webhook post comprises a post to the registered webhook;
• extracting at least one parameter from the HTTP request, to be used for validation of the webhook post, wherein the at least one parameter indicates an identity of the web application;
• using a webhook validation library via a library API and based on the identity of the web application, obtaining from a configuration template configuration information associated with the web application for validating the webhook post, wherein the configuration information specifies a validation scheme for the registered webhook, wherein the application integration platform is configured to validate webhook posts from a plurality of different web applications to a plurality of different subscribing applications using a plurality of different validation schemes;
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• upon successfully validating the webhook post by operation of one or more computer processors and based on the obtained configuration information and the validation scheme, forwarding, by the application integration platform via the network, the webhook post to the subscribing application for processing.