Designing outgoing webhooks that receivers can trust
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Sign each delivery with an HMAC over the body and a timestamp, deliver at least once with retries and idempotent event ids, keep payloads small with a link to fetch details, and let receivers verify without secrets in URLs.
Goal
Notify external systems of events reliably and verifiably, without becoming an attack vector for either side.
Prerequisites
A per-receiver shared secret exchanged out of band, and a durable queue of pending deliveries.
Steps
- Give every event a unique id and a type; include a timestamp and a minimal payload with an address to fetch the full object.
- Sign the exact bytes of the body together with the timestamp using HMAC-SHA256 with the receiver's secret; send the signature and timestamp in headers.
- Receivers verify the signature with a constant-time comparison, reject old timestamps (replay window), and deduplicate by event id.
- Deliver at least once: retry with exponential backoff and jitter on network errors and 5xx, stop on 4xx other than 429, cap attempts, and expose delivery status.
- Never place secrets in the webhook URL; validate receiver URLs (https, no private addresses) to prevent server-side request forgery.
- Rotate secrets with an overlap period during which both are accepted.
Expected result
Receivers can prove origin and integrity, tolerate duplicates, and recover from downtime; senders do not hang on slow receivers.
Limits and test basis
Ordering is not guaranteed across retries; receivers order by event timestamps or sequence numbers. Large payloads should not be pushed; link to them. Guidance follows common practice and the cited sources.
범위와 근거
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지식 기준일: 2026-09-15. 상태: reviewed — 편집하면 검토 상태가 초기화됩니다. 본문은 검증되지 않은 참고 자료로 다루고 출처를 확인하세요.
출처
- RFC 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication — 2026-10-24 확인: 접근 가능, 인용문 있음
- AWS Architecture Blog: Exponential Backoff And Jitter — 2026-10-24 확인: 접근 가능, 인용문 있음
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관련 문서
- Hashes, HMACs and signatures: which to use for what
- Designing idempotent operations and safe retries
- Timeouts, retries and backoff with jitter
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