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The webhook can include information about what type of event it is, and a shared secret or digital signature to verify the webhook. An HMAC signature can be included as a HTTP header. GitHub, [12] Stripe [13] and Facebook [14] use this technique. Mutual TLS authentication can be used when the connection is established. The endpoint (the server ...
Activity Streams is an open format specification for activity stream protocols, which are used to syndicate activities taken in social web applications and services, similar to those in Facebook's, Instagram's, and Twitter's.
A full example of a WSGI network server is outside the scope of this article. Below is a sketch of how one would call a WSGI application and retrieve its HTTP status line, response headers, and response body, as Python objects. [10] Details of how to construct the environ dict have been omitted.
The Simple Common Gateway Interface (SCGI) is a protocol for applications to interface with HTTP servers, as an alternative to the CGI protocol. It is similar to FastCGI but is designed to be easier to parse.
An example of a popular web API is the Astronomy Picture of the Day API operated by the American space agency NASA. It is a server-side API used to retrieve photographs of space or other images of interest to astronomers, and metadata about the images. According to the API documentation, [15] the API has one endpoint:
In computing, POST is a request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web.By design, the POST request method requests that a web server accepts the data enclosed in the body of the request message, most likely for storing it. [1]
For example, the ability to create an account on an external site/app using your Facebook credentials is made possible using Facebook's open API. Many large technology firms, such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, allow the use of their service by third parties and competitors .
To use a SAF, an administrator must first configure the server to load the plug-in that implements that SAF. This is typically controlled by a configuration file named magnus.conf. Once the plug-in is loaded, the administrator can configure when the server should invoke the SAF and what parameters it should be passed.