I can never understand why enforcing (sane and secure) TLS and adding a (shared) secret request header isn't the usual simple answer. As far as I know, TLS pre

I can never understand why enforcing (sane and secure) TLS and adding a (shared) secret request header isn't the usual simple answer. As far as I know, TLS prevents all these security issues, except authentication of the webhook caller, hence the shared secret which your webhooks should check. I've verified in the TLS specs that every issue I've seen raised by people is actually covered, yet people still think (and write) that TLS doesn't sign traffic (it does), or TLS doesn't prevent replay attacks (it does), etc. Usually I give them pointers to the specs, and they say "it doesn't hurt to add even more security" but they're really rolling out their own encryption, which you shouldn't do. I'd say enforce TLS and authenticate the webhook caller...