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Securing webhooks

Callback URL

Fractal ID accepts only secure sites (HTTPS) as callback URLs.

Validating payloads from Fractal ID

When your secret token is set, Fractal ID uses it to create a hash signature with each payload. The hash signature is passed along with each request in the headers as X-Fractal-Signature.
Fractal ID generates signatures using a hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) with SHA-1.
Your endpoint should verify the signature to make sure it came from Fractal ID. Example implementation in Ruby:
def verify_signature
payload_body = request.body.read
signature = "sha1=" + OpenSSL::HMAC.hexdigest(OpenSSL::Digest.new("sha1"), ENV["WEBHOOK_SECRET_TOKEN"], payload_body)
if Rack::Utils.secure_compare(signature, request.headers["X-Fractal-Signature"])
render json: {}, status: 200
else
render json: { error: "signature_mismatch" }, status: 400
end
end
Your language and server implementations may differ than this code. There are a couple of very important things to point out, however:
Use your webhook secret token, not your client secret, for generating the digest for verification.
No matter which implementation you use, the hash signature starts with sha1=, using the key of your secret token and your payload body.
Using a plain == operator is not advised. A method like secure_compare performs a "constant time" string comparison, which renders it safe from certain timing attacks against regular equality operators.