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Add Webhook authorization header (#20926)
_This is a different approach to #20267, I took the liberty of adapting
some parts, see below_

## Context

In some cases, a weebhook endpoint requires some kind of authentication.
The usual way is by sending a static `Authorization` header, with a
given token. For instance:

- Matrix expects a `Bearer <token>` (already implemented, by storing the
header cleartext in the metadata - which is buggy on retry #19872)
- TeamCity #18667
- Gitea instances #20267
- SourceHut https://man.sr.ht/graphql.md#authentication-strategies (this
is my actual personal need :)

## Proposed solution

Add a dedicated encrypt column to the webhook table (instead of storing
it as meta as proposed in #20267), so that it gets available for all
present and future hook types (especially the custom ones #19307).

This would also solve the buggy matrix retry #19872.

As a first step, I would recommend focusing on the backend logic and
improve the frontend at a later stage. For now the UI is a simple
`Authorization` field (which could be later customized with `Bearer` and
`Basic` switches):


![2022-08-23-142911](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3864879/186162483-5b721504-eef5-4932-812e-eb96a68494cc.png)

The header name is hard-coded, since I couldn't fine any usecase
justifying otherwise.

## Questions

- What do you think of this approach? @justusbunsi @Gusted @silverwind 
- ~~How are the migrations generated? Do I have to manually create a new
file, or is there a command for that?~~
- ~~I started adding it to the API: should I complete it or should I
drop it? (I don't know how much the API is actually used)~~

## Done as well:

- add a migration for the existing matrix webhooks and remove the
`Authorization` logic there


_Closes #19872_

Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Gusted <williamzijl7@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: delvh <dev.lh@web.de>
2022-11-03 20:23:20 +02:00
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assets/js Add new JS linter rules (#17699) 2021-11-22 16:19:01 +08:00
content Add Webhook authorization header (#20926) 2022-11-03 20:23:20 +02:00
layouts docs: move search input to navbar (#20551) 2022-08-08 15:27:04 +08:00
scripts Fix building of docs with latest hugo version (#3856) 2018-04-28 23:46:05 +03:00
static Refactor docs (#21627) 2022-10-31 23:16:19 +00:00
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config.yaml update current stable version 2022-10-15 22:04:25 -04:00
LICENSE Import docs into main repository (#2874) 2017-11-26 23:44:32 +02:00
Makefile follow redirect when fetching theme archive (#15986) 2021-05-26 18:03:39 -04:00
README.md Update to docs README (#6221) 2019-03-01 15:39:30 -05:00
README_ZH.md update discord link (#10455) 2020-02-25 12:36:45 -05:00

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