Break up scenarios with secure webhooks

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What are you trying to achieve?

Hey!

I have some pretty large and messy scenarios that I intend organize better by breaking them into smaller pieces/modules using http-module and webhooks. Similar to what this guy is doing.

My questions:

  1. Is this a good approach?
  2. What about security? On the off chance that someone figures out the webhook-URL, they could send in garbage data I guess? How can I make it safer? IP whitelisting seems like one approach, but how do I know what IP my post request will come from in my other scenario?

Thankful for any help.

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If calling scenarios in the same organization, simply whitelist the IP address for the servers the zone is in.

For more information, see https://www.make.com/en/help/connections/allowing-connections-to-and-from-make-ip-addresses

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

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ah, that was easy :laughing: thanks!

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Hi Nicky,
You could also secure your webhook by using an API key. Basically you would put your token in the header and use a filter between the webhook module and the next module to check if the token matches your token.