Web Hook Implementation in .Net Core

Using the Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebHooks.Receivers package is not a good idea as it's deprecated. Setting up a controller to receive a web hook request is generally the same as setting up any other web api controller. Testing it is the hard part as you need the sender to generate a request that lands on your webhook. That requires some configuration on the sender to point it to your development URL. If the provider is a service like Twilio or Github, you will need to authenticate the request and that process should be covered in documentation.

To test, you can use a free instance of ngrok. It creates a public endpoint that you can register on the service that routes to a port on your dev environment.

You can register the public ngork URL with your service provider and then any messages generated are forwarded to your dev endpoint running on a local port.

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John Iwasz3y ago
Using the Microsoft.AspNetCore.WebHooks.Receivers package is not a good idea as it's deprecated. Setting up a controller to receive a web hook request is generally the same as setting up any other web api controller. Testing it is the hard part as you need the sender to generate a request that lands on your webhook. That requires some configuration on the sender to point it to your development URL. If the provider is a service like Twilio or Github, you will need to authenticate the request and that process should be covered in documentation.

To test, you can use a free instance of ngrok. It creates a public endpoint that you can register on the service that routes to a port on your dev environment.

You can register the public ngork URL with your service provider and then any messages generated are forwarded to your dev endpoint running on a local port.
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Pasang Tamang3y ago
Hi,

Here is nice documentation about WebHook receiver

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/webhooks/receiving/receivers

Regards,
Pasang
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