webhooks in development

[Scott K]

I'd have guessed that the stripe cli would let me send post "requests" to my localhost endpoint so I could see if the endpoint was working Instead I find that the stripe cli is a listener for webhook events How is that supposed to work?

[Remi J.]

Hello,

One feature the Stripe CLI offers is the ability to receive Events for you and then forward those to your local server. Without the CLI, you can't configure a localhost endpoint as our servers wouldn't know where to forward the data. So what you do is use the stripe listen command [1] and the forward option [2] that lets you proxy the Event we would send to your webhook endpoint but through the CLI first.

Hope this helps! If you have a follow up question, I'd recommend chatting with our support team first here [3] or talking to other developers on our Discord server here [4].

Best,

Remi

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/cli/listen#listen

[2] https://stripe.com/docs/cli/listen#listen-forward-to

[3] https://support.stripe.com/contact

[4] https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:44 AM Scott K <skapl...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd have guessed that the stripe cli would let me send post "requests" to my localhost endpoint so I could see if the endpoint was working Instead I find that the stripe cli is a listener for webhook events How is that supposed to work?

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