Unable to create Webhook

Hi Team,

While I am creating webhook on a folder, getting 400 Bad request exception.

This is my request body which I am passing along with request.

{

"target": {

"id": "124648447279",

"type": "folder"

"address": "http://localhost:8080/box/callback/webhooks",

"triggers": [

"FILE.UPLOADED"

]

}

And this is the response which I getting.

{

"type": "error",

"status": 400,

"code": "bad_request",

"context_info": {

"errors": [

{

"reason": "invalid_parameter",

"name": "address",

"message": "Invalid address specified."

}

]

"help_url": "http://developers.box.com/docs/#errors",

"message": "Bad Request",

"request_id": "au5m8qgjx4h0ihb0"

}

We are using http://localhost:8080/ for the testing purpose here. Kindly let us know, what is the wrong with address parameter here, We will really appreciate if some one can help us on this.

Thanks

-Vivek

Peter Christensen

October 22, 2020 08:23

Hi Vivek

The Box webhook is an event that is fired from the Box platform, so referencing localhost will not work, it has to be a publicly available endpoint. See https://developer.box.com/guides/webhooks/limitations/

For initial testing purposes, we recommend you use something like https://webhook.site/ which automatically creates a URL for you and shows the webhook payload directly in the browser. For further deployment, most cloud computing providers have a serverless offering that is well suited for webhooks. AWS Lambdas, Azure Web Functions etc.

Best Regards,
Peter Christensen, Platform Solutions Engineer, Box

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