How to authenticate to external resource while using WebHook

Question

I have written an api that should work when a jira web-hook calls it with an issue id e.g., https://example.com/v1/abc/${issue-id}.

The problem here is that my API uses authentication. I can not find a direct authentication method while looking into webhooks. Is there any way I could get it working with authentication?

If I use AWS lambda, it still needs authentication. What should I do regarding this?

Thanks

Hariharan Iyer_f6fx5m · Answer

@Jamshaid , sorry to hear that. Just to confirm, are you looking at the web hook trigger, or the send web request action? The former is an incoming request for when to run an automation, while the latter is an outgoing request that can be run as part of an automation. Can you clarify which one you're interested in here as part of your workflow?

Jamshaid · Answer

@Hariharan Iyer i can not find headers in webhook options

Hariharan Iyer_f6fx5m · Answer

Hi @Jamshaid ,

That depends on your API implementation. For example - in a very typical implementation - you can have your API to read in the authentication parameters from the request headers, and then input that in the web request form.

For example