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Why do webhooks use secrets? Why not use just SSL?

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Standard practice is for an event-notification-service to give you a secret when you register your endpoint with them, and then the service signs the messages it sends to your endpoint with that shared secret, so that your server can verify the messages are legitimate.

However why is this necessary? Assuming your endpoint and the event-notification-service are both using HTTPS, shouldn't HTTPS take care of everything you need anyway, making this entire secret and signing process redundant? Is the idea to not rely on SSL-certificates, or allow clients to use endpoints that are not HTTPS?


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