The one major issue I have with webhooks is how badly some places implement them. One of the systems I deal with just throws a single http request over fence.

The one major issue I have with webhooks is how badly some places implement them. One of the systems I deal with just throws a single http request over fence. No retry, no handling of errors, no guarantee their system actually sent it or not. And they rolled their own “basic auth” header. At least they allow ssl. I’m afraid to check the ciphers they support. Just going with the tried and true method of as long as I don’t look, there isn’t a problem. I end up having to fall back to polling thousands of items one at a time every couple of hours. The only reason I use their webhooks at all is so I have a chance to get “real-time” updates on state changes. At least it’s a step above sending csv over ftp.