Validating GitHub Webhook Requests in Caddy
This blog consists of static content generated by Hugo from source code in a GitHub repository and served by Caddy. Hugo and Caddy are wonderful pieces of Go-based software, but together, they cannot automatically update this blog when I make a change. Manually updating the blog is rather cumbersome. After pushing an update to GitHub, I log into this server, pull down the updates, run Hugo to generate the static content, and verify the new content in my web browser. I’d much rather automate this process so all I must do is push changes and refresh my browser. Since I just wrote a book where Chapter 10 covers writing Caddy extensions, I have no excuse not to automate this process. ...