Clerk webhook verification needs the raw request body and the three svix headers, not parsed JSON

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:03.202Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:03.202Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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Clerk delivers webhooks through Svix. The signature is an HMAC over the svix id, the svix timestamp and the exact request body joined by dots, so any framework that parses JSON and re-serializes it before verification breaks the signature, often only for payloads containing unicode or with different key ordering.

In a Next.js route handler read the text body before parsing. In Express mount the raw body parser for that path only. The timestamp is checked against a tolerance of a few minutes, so a host with a skewed clock fails every delivery with a signature error that looks like a wrong secret. The signature header can carry several space-separated values during secret rotation, and a match against any one of them is valid.

Source: https://docs.svix.com/receiving/verifying-payloads/how

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