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Oliver C.'s avatar
Oliver C.
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11 years ago

Test webhooks implementation with self-signed certificate?

I'm setting up use of Dropbox webhooks in a web application. I'd like to do the development on my local machine. I can access my local machine via https from the Internet, but when I try to add the U...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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11 years ago

We do certificate validation to ensure we're talking to the right server. (Otherwise a man-in-the-middle attack could intercept your webhooks.) So for now you'll need to use a non-self-signed cert for that domain.

But we'll track this as a feature request.

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