Webhooks, APIs & Tokens articles

Webhooks, APIs & Tokens 430 cPanel API tokens: automating without handing over your password Sooner or later somebody asks you for your cPanel password: the developer building an integration, the offsite...
Webhooks, APIs & Tokens 229 What a webhook is, and how to test one with curl A webhook is an address on the internet that receives a notice when something happens in another application....
Webhooks, APIs & Tokens 221 An automation that worked and suddenly stopped: the usual causes An automation that worked and then stopped has almost never broken by itself: something around it changed. The...
Webhooks, APIs & Tokens 397 Receiving a webhook in PHP and checking its signature A webhook is a request another service makes to you when something happens. In a PHP file on your site you receive...
Webhooks, APIs & Tokens 241 Synchronous or asynchronous: why a payment or SMS confirmation arrives later The short answer: with a synchronous request, your site asks and waits until it has the final answer, as when it...
Webhooks, APIs & Tokens 302 An API key or token has leaked: what to do, in the right order The short answer: if an API key, a token or a webhook secret has turned up somewhere it should not (a public...