topic Re: Meraki webhook fails when using basic auth in Network Platform API

Meraki webhook fails when using basic auth

DevMan — Thu, 13 May 2021 17:57:45 GMT

I'm attempting to send Meraki event data via Webhooks to a rest endpoint that requires authentication. There does not appear to be a way for me to add headers to my Webhook configurations via the UI so I am adding basic authentication in the Webhook URL. My Webhook URL Looks like this:

https://<user>:<password>@collector.test.com/meraki

However; Meraki does not seem to like this as it always fails when I run a test. I get 401 unauthorized's as it appear Meraki is stripping out or not forwarding the auth creds. I've verified that the creds and endpoint work by doing the following curl test:

curl -X POST https://<user>:<password>@collector.test.com/meraki \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"message":"test"}'

I'd prefer to use Bearer authentication but there doesn't be a way for me to add http headers to Webhooks.

What's the best way to accomplish this?

Re: Meraki webhook fails when using basic auth

inderdeepsingh1 — Thu, 13 May 2021 19:22:21 GMT

Can you share what output you are getting ?

Re: Meraki webhook fails when using basic auth

DevMan — Thu, 13 May 2021 20:54:13 GMT

I misspoke. The test just says "fail" so I don't have any context into where or why it's failing. Is there a way to see what the response code/payload is?

Re: Meraki webhook fails when using basic auth

inderdeepsingh1 — Thu, 13 May 2021 21:32:46 GMT

@DevMan : can you check this postman collection

https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/897512/SVfRtnU7?version=latest

Re: Meraki webhook fails when using basic auth

Philip D'Ath — Thu, 13 May 2021 21:33:58 GMT

Cisco Meraki WebHooks do not support basic authentication. Just a shared secret. Here are some examples.

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/webhooks/#!webhook-sample-alerts

Re: Meraki webhook fails when using basic auth

DexterLabora — Thu, 27 May 2021 12:10:01 GMT

custom headers are coming to a webhook near you...

Stay tuned for this Summer's hot updates 😉

Re: Meraki webhook fails when using basic auth

inderdeepsingh1 — Thu, 27 May 2021 12:10:49 GMT

@DexterLabora : that’s good news, thanks .. waiting