Securing Twitter Webhook












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As mentioned in Twitter Docs
Steps to validate a request




  1. Create a hash using your consumer secret and incoming payload body.

  2. Compare created hash with the base64 encoded x-twitter-webhooks-signature value.


Here is my code for doing so:



const buffer = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(ctx.request.body))
const expectedHash = crypto.createHmac('sha256', TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET).update(buffer).digest('base64')


The x-twitter-webhooks-signature header from twitter and the hash generated does not match. Also, the post at https://twittercommunity.com/t/validating-the-webhook-signature-header-in-node-js/102525 says that it's JSON.stringify() issue. I'm using koa and koa-body, how can I fix the hash mismatch?










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    As mentioned in Twitter Docs
    Steps to validate a request




    1. Create a hash using your consumer secret and incoming payload body.

    2. Compare created hash with the base64 encoded x-twitter-webhooks-signature value.


    Here is my code for doing so:



    const buffer = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(ctx.request.body))
    const expectedHash = crypto.createHmac('sha256', TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET).update(buffer).digest('base64')


    The x-twitter-webhooks-signature header from twitter and the hash generated does not match. Also, the post at https://twittercommunity.com/t/validating-the-webhook-signature-header-in-node-js/102525 says that it's JSON.stringify() issue. I'm using koa and koa-body, how can I fix the hash mismatch?










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      As mentioned in Twitter Docs
      Steps to validate a request




      1. Create a hash using your consumer secret and incoming payload body.

      2. Compare created hash with the base64 encoded x-twitter-webhooks-signature value.


      Here is my code for doing so:



      const buffer = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(ctx.request.body))
      const expectedHash = crypto.createHmac('sha256', TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET).update(buffer).digest('base64')


      The x-twitter-webhooks-signature header from twitter and the hash generated does not match. Also, the post at https://twittercommunity.com/t/validating-the-webhook-signature-header-in-node-js/102525 says that it's JSON.stringify() issue. I'm using koa and koa-body, how can I fix the hash mismatch?










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      As mentioned in Twitter Docs
      Steps to validate a request




      1. Create a hash using your consumer secret and incoming payload body.

      2. Compare created hash with the base64 encoded x-twitter-webhooks-signature value.


      Here is my code for doing so:



      const buffer = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(ctx.request.body))
      const expectedHash = crypto.createHmac('sha256', TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET).update(buffer).digest('base64')


      The x-twitter-webhooks-signature header from twitter and the hash generated does not match. Also, the post at https://twittercommunity.com/t/validating-the-webhook-signature-header-in-node-js/102525 says that it's JSON.stringify() issue. I'm using koa and koa-body, how can I fix the hash mismatch?







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          Found a solution. Used koa-bodyparser instead of koa-body then sha256 of ctx.request.rawBody matches with the header.






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