Webhook - How to?

[bbrazeau]

Trying to understand how to setup webhooks in flow to convert an existing flow that sometimes times out but not always.  Trying to distill it down to a simple example.

"Sender"

• Flow Button
• Http - HTTP
  
  • Method: Post
  • URI: <Receiver's URL>
  • Headers: Content-Type application/json
  • Body: {"message": "Do Stuff"}
• Parse Json

"Receiver"

• When HTTP Request is Received
• Delay 10 minutes
• Response
  
  • {"message":"Success"}

The real flow does stuff but its basically that.
So is converting this to Webhooks basically replacing the HTTP-HTTP action with HTTP-Webhook and setting the Subscribe URI to "Receivers" URL?  I tried that, but Sender never got the message / stopped running and I had to cancel it.
Also what is the unsubscribe URI?

So the basic Flow with the HTTP caller:

And the Receiver - I only have the delay at 5 seconds as I'm not testing the timeout.

Successful run returning the Success Message after the 5 second delay.

Everything works as expected. I then added a second HTTP action to the flow for the webhook call.

Running the flow, it triggers both calls to the receiver which were 5 seconds apart from the delay.

But looking at the Flow's activities, its stopped on the Webhook action

And the run history shows its well beyond the 5 second delay so the Webhook isn't reacting to the returned message.

[MattWeston365]

Hi @bbrazeau 

I wrote a blog about this type of scenario back in 2018. Here's a link to it: https://blog.mattweston365.com/2018/08/re-use-in-microsoft-flow-wise-man-once.html

That should give you an idea of how you can use it and answer some of your questions.

If you're still struggling after following that, please let me know.

[v-litu-msft]

Hi @bbrazeau 

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