Hi! I am having trouble creating a webhook. For context - we are using Dockerized pact broker. I am following the pact nirvana guide and I'm currently at the Platinum stage, where I'm implementing can-i-deploy to PR pipelines. I've created a separate CI job (in Jenkins, TWIMC), and I got to the webhook creation step. I tried two methods: 1- pact-broker CLI

pact-broker create-webhook <http://www.google.com|www.google.com> -X POST --broker-base-url=https://<our-broker-url> --contract-content-changed --broker-username=<username> --broker-password=<password> --verbose

2- curl/postman

curl --location --request POST 'https://<our-broker-url>/webhooks/consumer/<consumer-name>' \

--header 'Authorization: Basic <encoded username:password>'

Both options eventually give me 401 unauthorized. I have double-checked the credentials and they are good. IDK what I am doing wrong here and the issues found online about 401 issues mostly suggest using tokens instead of basic auth, which we do not have as we're using the self-hosted broker. Another issue I found simply said "already fixed" 😅

Are you sending a webhook payload?

--data

?

I am not. I tried with minimal setup, so no content

pact-broker create-webhook <http://www.google.com|www.google.com> -X POST --broker-base-url=<http://localhost:9292> --contract-content-changed --verbose

returns

Error creating webhook. response status=400 body={"errors":{"request.url":["is not a valid URL eg. <http://example.org>"]}}

pact-broker create-webhook <https://www.google.com> -X POST --broker-base-url=https://<broker_url> --contract-content-changed --broker-username=user --broker-password=pass --verbose

Error creating webhook. response status=401

I’ll add auth to my broker and check

Thx! FWIW:

pact-broker version
1.75.3

hmm just setup the latest oss docker image with basic auth, and was able to send it fine thinking

pact-broker create-webhook <https://www.google.com> -X POST --broker-base-url=<http://localhost:9292> --contract-content-changed --verbose --broker-username test --broker-password test

Hmmm

just a

docker-compose up

in https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-broker-docker after adding these env vars in in the

pact-broker

service

PACT_BROKER_BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME: test
    PACT_BROKER_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD: test

is there any other infra set up between your broker at all? is the webhooks endpoint say blocked as at reverse proxy layer?

I'll ask our infra guys and check the broker logs to investigate deeper. Thx for at least confirming that I was on the correct path with the webhook creation myself

s’all good Siim. Good luck on the path to pact nirvana 👍 ps. I would very much recommend this webhook

contract_requiring_verification_published

event over the

contract_content_changed

https://docs.pact.io/pact_broker/webhooks#the-contract-requiring-verification-published-event

Yea, I was looking at that indeed. Just wanted to create any webhook as a start to fiddle around

Yeah totally understand. I did add a section for testing out broker webhooks locally in our pact-js workshop, which may be worth a look at https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-workshop-js/tree/step12#step-12---using-webhooks to give you a nice playground outside of your production broker 👍

Before coming here with my question I stumbled upon this page as well 😄 But seeing "step 12" and already having been through the PoC phase good amount of time ago, I figured I'll keep chipping at our current setup instead of investing time in the workshop right now.

hehe, happens to us all. at least you are sorted! woohoo