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Summary

textbee now sends a timestamped signature on every webhook delivery:

X-Textbee-Signature: t=<unix seconds>,v1=<hex HMAC-SHA256(secret, "<t>.<raw body>")>

This adds two helpers:

• verify_timestamped_webhook_signature(*, payload, signature_header, signing_secret, tolerance_seconds=300, now=None) -> bool checks one signature header value. It requires t to be 1 to 15 ASCII digits, rejects a duplicate t, accepts any matching v1, compares bytes with hmac.compare_digest (so a non-ASCII v1 returns False instead of raising), and rejects a t more than tolerance_seconds from now in either direction.
• verify_webhook_request(*, payload, headers, signing_secret, tolerance_seconds=300, now=None, allow_legacy=False) -> bool reads the signature header from any mapping or headers object in any case. It falls back to X-Signature only when the signature header is absent and allow_legacy=True.

verify_webhook_signature is unchanged and its docstring marks it deprecated. The README webhook section now shows only the timestamped signature, with Flask request.get_data(), the tolerance, the allow_legacy opt-in and idempotencyKey.

Version bump to 0.3.0, so merging publishes it.

Test plan

• uv run ruff check ., uv run ruff format --check ., uv run mypy
• uv run pytest: 185 passed (51 in test_webhooks.py)
• uv run --isolated --python 3.9 --group dev pytest tests/test_webhooks.py: 51 passed
• Signing in the tests matches api/src/webhook/webhook.service.ts on textbee main

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added timestamped webhook signature verification to help reject replayed requests.
  • Added request-level verification with case-insensitive header handling and optional legacy signature support.
• Documentation
  • Updated webhook guidance with verification examples, accepted inputs, configurable timestamp tolerance, and retry and idempotency considerations.
  • Marked the legacy signature verifier as deprecated and documented its replay-protection limitation.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for timestamp validation, malformed and duplicate headers, and optional legacy verification.

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• src/textbee/_webhooks.py
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Walkthrough

The package adds timestamped webhook signature verification and request-level verification with an opt-in legacy fallback. The README documents the new APIs and shows verification of the raw request body before parsing.

Changes: Webhook signature verification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Timestamped signature verification src/textbee/_webhooks.py, tests/test_webhooks.py	The module verifies HMAC-SHA256 signatures over the timestamp and raw payload. It checks timestamps against a configurable tolerance, which defaults to 300 seconds. Tests cover payload forms, malformed headers, tolerance boundaries, and matching signatures.
Request verification and public usage src/textbee/_webhooks.py, src/textbee/__init__.py, src/textbee/_version.py, tests/test_webhooks.py, README.md	The request verifier checks X-Textbee-Signature when present and uses X-Signature only when the timestamped header is absent and allow_legacy=True. The package exports both new verification functions, and its version changes to 0.3.0. The README documents the APIs and demonstrates verifying raw request bytes before parsing them.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FlaskEndpoint
  participant verify_webhook_request
  participant verify_timestamped_webhook_signature
  FlaskEndpoint->>verify_webhook_request: Pass raw body and request headers
  verify_webhook_request->>verify_timestamped_webhook_signature: Verify timestamped signature
  verify_timestamped_webhook_signature-->>verify_webhook_request: Return verification result
  verify_webhook_request-->>FlaskEndpoint: Return verification result
  FlaskEndpoint->>FlaskEndpoint: Parse body only after successful verification

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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 70933

The legacy verification test should isolate the wrong secret, but no production failure is established. This is mergeable with a targeted test correction.

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tests/test_webhooks.py: 1

316-321: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Make the wrong-secret legacy assertion isolate the secret.

The sign(payload, "whsec_other_secret") call signs the payload dict. The request body is RAW_BODY, which includes idempotencyKey. The bytes differ, so the request is rejected because of the body mismatch alone. This assertion cannot catch a regression in secret handling on the X-Signature legacy path.

Sign RAW_BODY with the other secret so that only the secret differs.

Proposed fix

-        headers={"x-signature": sign(payload, "whsec_other_secret")},
+        headers={
+            "x-signature": hmac.new(
+                b"whsec_other_secret", RAW_BODY.encode(), hashlib.sha256
+            ).hexdigest()
+        },

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Review comment at @tests/test_webhooks.py around lines 316 - 321:
Update the wrong-secret X-Signature assertion to compute its signature over
RAW_BODY using the other secret, so the test isolates secret validation and
preserves the request-body match.

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- Around line 316-321: Update the wrong-secret X-Signature assertion to compute
its signature over RAW_BODY using the other secret, so the test isolates secret
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