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Answers Webhook Signed request
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answers-webhook-signed-request.js
var apiKey = 'YOUR KEY HERE';
var secret = 'YOUR SECRET HERE';
var crypto = require('crypto');
var requestify = require('requestify');
function signedPost (url, data) {
var signer = cryto.createHmac('sha256', new Buffer(secret, 'utf8'));
var jsonData = unescape(encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(data)));
var signature = signer.update(jsonData).digest('hex');
return requestify.post(url, data, { //I used requestify, but any other method for doing cross-server requests is valid, the only thing that matters are the headers..
headers: {
'X-Auth-Api-Key': apiKey,
'X-Auth-Data-Signature': signature
}
});
}
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