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Webhook: an event notification with a receiver you must operate

A webhook sends an event notification to a configured HTTP endpoint. Its reliability, authentication and retry behavior depend on the actual sender and receiver implementations.

Reviewed · Examples are illustrative

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Meaning and common confusion

The receiving service must verify the request, validate the payload and decide what action is authorized. A successful HTTP response does not prove the downstream business action completed. Zintara's current general webhooks are best-effort notifications, so they should not be treated as a complete replayable source of truth.

Worked example

This is a synthetic illustration, not a customer result or a live configuration to copy.

Event occurs → sender posts notification → receiver verifies and stores work
HTTP success: receiver accepted the request
Separate evidence: downstream action completed
Missing notification: requires reconciliation, not an assumption that no event occurred.

Checks to make

  1. Verify signatures on the exact received body.
  2. Handle duplicates without repeating business side effects.
  3. Record failures and reconcile important state separately.

Next step and limits

Use the Zintara schema and delivery-failure guides before implementing a receiver. Do not expose secrets in URLs or treat a timestamp as a guaranteed unique event identifier. Subscribe only to event names the deployed product supports.

Source: Zintara product context for this operational definition

Source references

Worked examples are illustrative. Editorial procedures are suggested methods, not measured performance claims or promises of additional product features.

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