Can't get my WebHook V2 HMAC hash to match the one sent from Square

We just finished a big upgrade. We upgraded our appservices to .NET 5 and we updated our
square version, and the square API’S which pushed us to use the WebHook V2. We have everything working except the HMAC-SHA1 signature part. I’ve used an HMAC SHA1 generator and tested a simple example and I was able to match that result with my result successfully. I’m thinking the problem is I’m using a different square signature key than you guys or my request body is being parsed differently than yours. Is there any c# examples? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

:wave: We don’t have an public example however we’ve used the following.
This readBody function:

        public async Task<string> readBody(HttpRequest request)
        {
            var stream = Request.Body;
            string combined = "";
            using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream, Encoding.UTF8))
            {
                string value = await reader.ReadToEndAsync();
                combined = "webhook_url_here" + value;
            }
            return combined;
        }

Then code that uses it and the signature:

public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
        {
            var signature = Request.Headers["x-square-signature"];
           
            var body = await readBody(Request);
            string signatureKey = "signature_key_here";

            byte[] secret = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(signatureKey);
            HMACSHA1 hmac = new HMACSHA1(secret);

            var payloadBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(body);
            byte[] hash = hmac.ComputeHash(payloadBytes);

            String hashString = Convert.ToBase64String(hash);


            if (hashString.Equals(signature)) {
                Console.WriteLine(true);
            } else {
                Console.WriteLine(false);
            }
            return View();
        }

You will received a webhook and it prints out true. :slightly_smiling_face:

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great. I’ll try using this and re-test. thx

got it working. thx for the sample code.

That’s fantastic! Please feel free to reach out if you have any additional questions. :slightly_smiling_face: