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Webhooks

This page covers the webhook infrastructure, cryptographic verification, and inbound event routing for the Meta Cloud API.

Webhook Verification Challenge

Content coming soon.
  • Meta handshake parameters (hub.mode, hub.challenge, hub.verify_token)
  • Handshake endpoint validation

Cryptographic Security (HMAC-SHA256)

Content coming soon.
  • Verifying the X-Hub-Signature-256 header
  • Meta App Secret hashing
  • Constant-time string comparison (timingSafeEqual) to prevent timing attacks

Idempotency & Deduplication

Content coming soon.
  • Handling Meta’s at-least-once delivery guarantees
  • Redis-based locking and message ID (wamid) deduplication
  • Asynchronous queueing for inbound message processors