Can you post authentication credentials with WebHooks?

[da...@distribion.com]

I wrote a Drupal module to post JSON data to ReServe Cloud from our Drupal websites, and now people want me to connect from unbounce landing pages to ReServe using WebHooks.

The problem is, getting the data into Reserve requires authentication, so I do the interaction with cURL like so:

$ch=curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);

// Authorization
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json',
                                           'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string)));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

It looks to me like all I can do with WebHooks is send to a url that doesn't require authentication. Is this correct, or is there some way to send a username/password?

My thinking right now is that I'll have to use the Unbounce WebHooks feature to send data to an app on my server, then send that, with credentials, to ReServe from there. Sure seems like a roundabout way to do it though.

[Jeff Lindsay]

Webhooks are just HTTP requests. You can authenticate using any and every mechanism you want. It's up to you to communicate what authentication is supported.

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[da...@distribion.com]

Thanks. Unfortunately I've found that the limitation for me is on the posting end. I'm coming in through Unbounce, and they can only post form data, but not authentication.