Web Wallet
A web wallet is a wallet interface accessed through a web browser, with keys managed locally, remotely, or through a hybrid design.…
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Web3 Payment
A Web3 payment is a digital-asset payment initiated through a blockchain-enabled application, wallet, smart account, or smart contract. It can support token…
Web3 Wallet
A Web3 wallet is a wallet designed to connect with blockchain applications and authorize transactions, messages, permissions, and digital-asset interactions. For Web3…
Webhook
A webhook is an asynchronous HTTP message sent by one system to notify another system that a defined event occurred. A reliable…
Webhook Acknowledgement
Webhook Acknowledgement is the receiver response that tells the sender a delivery attempt was accepted according to the webhook contract. It is…
Webhook Audit Trail
A webhook audit trail is a chronological record of webhook creation, configuration, delivery, verification, retry, response, modification, and administrative activity. Webhook Audit…
Webhook Authentication
Webhook authentication enables a recipient to verify that a webhook request came from the expected sender under an established trust relationship. Common…
Webhook Consumer
A Webhook Consumer is the application component that receives, validates, stores, and processes webhook events. It may be an HTTP endpoint plus…
Webhook Deduplication
Webhook Deduplication identifies repeated webhook deliveries or semantically repeated events and prevents repeated business processing. It commonly uses event IDs, object identifiers,…
Webhook Endpoint
Webhook Endpoint is the server route that receives asynchronous webhook requests from another system. It is used to accept event notifications and…
Webhook Event Log
A Webhook Event Log is an append-oriented record of webhook events and delivery metadata, including event identity, timestamps, payload reference, signature result,…
Webhook Failure
Webhook Failure is a condition where a webhook cannot be delivered, authenticated, accepted, parsed, or applied successfully. It is used to identify…
Webhook Handler
A Webhook Handler is the HTTP-facing function or service that accepts an incoming webhook request, verifies it, parses the payload, records the…
Webhook Log
A Webhook Log is a diagnostic record of webhook requests, delivery attempts, responses, processing steps, and errors. It helps operators trace failures…
Webhook Payload Validation
Webhook Payload Validation checks that an incoming webhook body conforms to the expected event structure, field types, required values, allowed variants, and…
Webhook Recovery
Webhook Recovery is an asynchronous integration concept that securely and completely restores correct application state after missed, failed, delayed, rejected, or incorrectly…
Webhook Replay
Webhook Replay is the intentional redelivery or reprocessing of a previously recorded webhook event to recover from missed delivery, consumer failure, deployment…
Webhook Retry
A webhook retry is another delivery attempt for an event after an earlier attempt timed out or returned a non-accepted result. Webhook…
Webhook Security
Webhook Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects event delivery endpoints, messages, credentials, processing logic, and retries against forgery,…
Webhook Signature
A webhook signature is a cryptographic value that lets a receiver verify selected event bytes and metadata using trusted key material. A…
Webhook Signature Error
A webhook signature error occurs when a receiver cannot validate the provided signature against the expected message, key, algorithm, or freshness rules.…
Webhook Signature Verification
Webhook Signature Verification is an asynchronous integration concept that cryptographically checks that a webhook came from a trusted signer and that covered…
Webhook Subscription
Webhook Subscription is a stored registration that tells a provider which endpoint, event types, account scope, and delivery settings should receive webhook…
Webhook Testing
Webhook Testing verifies endpoint accessibility, signature validation, payload parsing, acknowledgement behavior, duplicate handling, retries, ordering, replay, and downstream state changes. It should…