webhook does not permit the json type in template - body of post

[Anonymous]

when i use webhook and i try to define the type json for the body of the psot request - it will send type
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" in any case.

Any ideas why?
thanks

[Anonymous]

Hi Amnon,
webhooks currently does not support changing the request headers. All webhooks call-outs are done as form POST

The Drop down that you are using is for response parsing. i.e. parse the response as JSON/XML and then use it to map values to lead fields.

regards

[Anonymous]

Amnon,
We plan to allow custom headers in the June release and this will enable you to change the mime-type

Raj

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.
So to be sure - what you are saying is that the "Request Token Encoding" does not work?
Thanks, Michal

[Anonymous]

not quite - token encoding is handled properly, but mime-type is not set to match the request template.  

[Anonymous]

@Raj  Thanks for the responses.  May I check on the status of this?  For my POST webhooks Marketo always seems to set the content-type header to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", even when posting json.

But third party site requires it to be set to "application/json" when POSTing json.

I don't see any way to set custom headers. Changing "Response type" doesn't seem to do it.

[Anonymous]

Richard,
You can set the content-type header to application/json

[Anonymous]

Thank you Raj!  I never would have found that; I was looking in the "Edit webhook" dialog.

Now working.  Incidentally, the third party I am using returns status code 201 ("CREATED") which is perfectly legitimate.  Marketo sees this as an error.  It probably shouldn't.  Anyway, the data get across so I can now start to see what I can make with this!

[Anonymous]

Richard,
We will fix the webhook infrastructure to treat all 2xx responses as success in a near future release.

Raj