A small webhook use case I keep coming back to

While building Adal, I noticed that webhooks are not always about immediate automation.

Sometimes the first task is much simpler: you do not want to process the webhook yet, you just want to see what was actually sent. This happens a lot during early integration work.

A service has webhook support. The documentation shows an example payload. Everything looks clear enough. But before writing the real handler, you still want to check the actual request.

What headers are included? Where is the event type? What does the body look like for this specific event? Are there signatures or timestamps? Does the real payload match the documentation?

Technically, you can solve this in many ways. You can start a local server, expose it with a tunnel, write a temporary handler, log the incoming request, and then format the result so it is readable. That works. But for the "I just want to look at the webhook" stage, it often feels like too much setup.

This is one of the small scenarios I want Adal to handle well.

You create an endpoint, get a permanent URL, paste it into the external service, and then inspect incoming requests in the interface. It is not meant to replace your backend. It is not trying to make decisions for you or transform the request into something else. The goal is simpler: show the real request clearly.

Method, path, headers, body, size, and other useful details should be visible before you start building assumptions around them. I think this matters because a lot of integration work starts with uncertainty. Documentation helps, but the real request is the source of truth.

Once you can see the webhook, the next steps become much clearer: do I need this event? Where is the identifier I should store? Which field should trigger the business logic? How should I verify the signature? Does my handler need to support multiple event shapes? For me, this is becoming an important part of Adal's positioning.

It is not only about delivering webhooks to local development or production destinations. It is also about visibility. Sometimes visibility starts with a very simple question: what did the service actually send?