Re:Webhooks Are Magic
by paddyforan on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @03:35PM
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I'm incredibly excited about them.
As far as I'm concerned, webhooks and callback requests are the same. If we were going to get pedantic, I suppose we could say that for a request to be a callback, it would have to be a response to an earlier request (think asynchronous processing) whereas a webhook is an evented request (it wasn't prompted by a previous request).
But being pedantic is lame. Let's just be excited about both!
As far as I'm concerned, webhooks and callback requests are the same. If we were going to get pedantic, I suppose we could say that for a request to be a callback, it would have to be a response to an earlier request (think asynchronous processing) whereas a webhook is an evented request (it wasn't prompted by a previous request).
But being pedantic is lame. Let's just be excited about both!
Relevant: https://twitter.com/paddyforan/statuses/254375310554968064