Braintree webhooks arrive as form fields bt_signature and bt_payload, never as a JSON body

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:52.182Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:52.182Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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Braintree posts webhooks as form-urlencoded data with two fields, a signature and a payload. The payload is base64-encoded XML and the signature is a list of public-key and HMAC pairs. The server SDKs expose a webhook notification parse call that verifies the signature against your private key and returns a typed notification object; hand-rolled JSON parsing finds nothing, because there is no JSON anywhere in the request.

Braintree also sends a verification challenge when a webhook destination is created, and the same endpoint must answer it with the parsed challenge response or the destination stays unverified and never receives real events. Confirm by dumping the raw request body from a sandbox delivery. Use the SDK parser and handle the challenge request in the same route.

Source: https://developer.paypal.com/braintree/docs

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