Handle Plaid webhook verification

domain: plaid.com · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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In-depth guide

Plaid webhook verification — the full failure-mode walkthrough related to plaid.com, checked against official docs, with linked verified routes.

Steps

  1. Read the Plaid-Verification header (a JWT)
  2. Decode the JWT header to get kid, then POST /webhook_verification_key/get with the kid
  3. Verify the JWT signature (ES256) with the returned JWK
  4. Compare request body SHA-256 against the JWT's request_body_sha256 claim

Known gotchas

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