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Webhooks are extensions of APIs. The data comes in a web request to your application. Webhooks may be the result of an earlier API <\/a> call, this type of webhook is also called a “callback”, such as an \u2018asynchronous\u2019 request to the Number Insight API. Even webhooks are used to notify your application of events such as an incoming call or message.
\nAs the server needs to send data to your application via webhooks, you need to set up the webserver to receive the incoming HTTP requests. You also need to specify the URL of each webhook on your web server so that data can be sent to each URL.<\/p>\n

Securing Webhooks:<\/h2>\n

Since webhook delivers data to publicly available URLs in your app or router, there is the chance that someone else could find that URL and then provides you with false data. To prevent it from happening you can employ a number of techniques. The easy thing to do (and what you should implement before going any further) is to force TLS connections \u201cHTTPS\u201d. Once you have implemented that you may go forward and further secure your connection:<\/p>\n