Stripe blog: New webhooks(stripe.com)
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Stripe blog: New webhooks
https://stripe.com/blog/webhooks
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This does look awesome. However, the article states that to verify authenticity, you can request the event from the API. This seems awfully inefficient.
A better solution would be to supply everyone with a set of keys and you sign each object using the private key which can be verified by the public key. No network ops - whoop!
A better solution would be to supply everyone with a set of keys and you sign each object using the private key which can be verified by the public key. No network ops - whoop!
Stripe is intimidatingly good. A test mode that you don't need to sign up to play with. Excellent sinatra sample code for webhooks.
Then, I read their background, which is also intimidatingly good: funded by PayPal founders; one co-founder was a YCer with a $5 million exit at 19yo. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539414)
I have one suggestion: for the browser test mode, allow invalid CC numbers (or, provide a test CC number), so one doesn't have to go and find and type in a real-life credit card, to try it out.
I have one suggestion: for the browser test mode, allow invalid CC numbers (or, provide a test CC number), so one doesn't have to go and find and type in a real-life credit card, to try it out.
I have one suggestion: for the browser test mode, allow invalid CC numbers (or, provide a test CC number), so one doesn't have to go and find and type in a real-life credit card, to try it out
4242424242424242 with any three digit number for the CVC
4242424242424242 with any three digit number for the CVC
As a current Stripe customer we built our whole subscription billing system on their clever invoice_ready webhook, but this new way looks a lot more robust. Win!
Is this documentation generated from something like docco (http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/) or pycco (http://fitzgen.github.com/pycco/)?
Would love to do something similar. Is the project open source? Or could you write a blog post about your documentation setup?
Great work! Webhooks are the best.
Would love to do something similar. Is the project open source? Or could you write a blog post about your documentation setup?
Great work! Webhooks are the best.
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The webhook retry feature sounds fantastic!
Even Stripe's blog is beautiful.
One tiny nitpick is that this field is too small IMO: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/186198/Screenshots/p5uf.png
Also nitpicky, I would like to have the test charge.failed webhook include a fake description param.