A Stripe webhook endpoint is a public URL that moves money and access. Five coding mistakes let a forged request or a plain retry do the wrong thing.
A Stripe webhook endpoint is an ordinary web address that Stripe calls when something happens in your account: a payment succeeds, a subscription renews, a dispute opens. Whatever your handler does next, such as shipping a product, switching on a plan or crediting a balance, is real. That makes the endpoint a target for two kinds of trouble. Someone outside Stripe can post a made-up event to it, and Stripe itself can legitimately deliver the same event more than once. Many webhook bugs that cost money come from five habits in the handler code: parsing the body too early, skipping the signature check, turning off the age check, ignoring event ids, and doing slow work before answering. This…
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