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authorSteve Halasz <stevehalasz@gmail.com>2016-08-03 23:11:35 -0400
committerSteve Halasz <stevehalasz@gmail.com>2016-08-03 23:22:23 -0400
commit7612f1c4c6df200778f32098fbccf654a858894d (patch)
tree1da54750b3a1e52e9f122a3d409d2ac63b050218
parent532202a5278a622de874b9dfc1c4f7fe9ddf5ce4 (diff)
downloadgitlab-ce-7612f1c4c6df200778f32098fbccf654a858894d.tar.gz
Document that webhook secret token is sent in X-Gitlab-Token HTTP header
-rw-r--r--CHANGELOG1
-rw-r--r--app/views/shared/web_hooks/_form.html.haml2
-rw-r--r--doc/web_hooks/web_hooks.md4
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 73812e16d6f..4871a5ad0d0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ v 8.11.0 (unreleased)
- Fix RequestProfiler::Middleware error when code is reloaded in development
- Catch what warden might throw when profiling requests to re-throw it
- Speed up and reduce memory usage of Commit#repo_changes, Repository#expire_avatar_cache and IrkerWorker
+ - Document that webhook secret token is sent in X-Gitlab-Token HTTP header
v 8.10.3
- Fix Import/Export issue importing milestones and labels not associated properly. !5426
diff --git a/app/views/shared/web_hooks/_form.html.haml b/app/views/shared/web_hooks/_form.html.haml
index 2585ed9360b..470dac6d75b 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/web_hooks/_form.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shared/web_hooks/_form.html.haml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
= f.label :token, "Secret Token", class: 'label-light'
= f.text_field :token, class: "form-control", placeholder: ''
%p.help-block
- Use this token to validate received payloads
+ Use this token to validate received payloads. It will be sent with the request in the X-Gitlab-Token HTTP header.
.form-group
= f.label :url, "Trigger", class: 'label-light'
%ul.list-unstyled
diff --git a/doc/web_hooks/web_hooks.md b/doc/web_hooks/web_hooks.md
index 8559b67af04..d4b28d875cd 100644
--- a/doc/web_hooks/web_hooks.md
+++ b/doc/web_hooks/web_hooks.md
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ GitLab webhooks keep in mind the following things:
you are writing a low-level hook this is important to remember.
- GitLab ignores the HTTP status code returned by your endpoint.
+## Secret Token
+
+If you specify a secret token, it will be sent with the hook request in the `X-Gitlab-Token` HTTP header. Your webhook endpoint can check that to verify that the request is legitimate.
+
## SSL Verification
By default, the SSL certificate of the webhook endpoint is verified based on