Good morning everyone. I am developing an application that uses the watson assistant webhook by sending some parameters to a server, which analyzes the parameters and based on these sends a response to the application and to watson itself.
Well, it turns out that I was using ngrok to do this test by placing the parameters in watson, until a few days ago I couldn't (or it doesn't exactly let me) make the request.
Error
Cannot create property 'transactionId' on string ' Access Denied Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://us-south.assistant.watson.cloud.ibm.com/rest/v2/skills/ on this server. Reference '
I have tried other applications that allow me to do the same work as ngrok, but I am new to this and it is very complicated. LOCALTUNNEL solved my problem temporarily, but later it didn't work anymore. I also tried with portmap.io, serveo, pagekite, smee.io among others and I still can't perform my requests.
I would really appreciate any help with my problem. Thank you very much.
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I am trying to setup a WhatsApp bot using voiceflow, based on the tutorial found here. I've set this up before and everything has worked fine, but now I can't seem to configure the webhook.
The steps I'm performing are as follows:
Clone the repo here
Checked ngrok is installed (version 3.0.7), and its location (/usr/local/bin/ngrok)
Created a .env file at the root with the VERIFY_TOKEN, PORT, and WHATSAPP_TOKEN
Started the app from root with npm start
Started ngrok with ngrok http 8000 (the same port as specified in my .env)
Checked the resulting address works in the browser
According to the documentation, I then configure the webhook by adding "/webhook" to the end of the URL, and adding the same VERIFY_TOKEN as specified in my .env file. This, however, gives me the following error:
The callback URL or verify token couldn't be validated.
Please verify the provided information or try again later.
I've had a look around at similar questions here, but could not find what was wrong. I have also spoken to others who encountered similar issues over the last few weeks. This process was working up until recently (Nov 2022).
The error msg: The callback URL or verify token couldn't be validated. Please verify the provided information or try again later. usually means you are not returning a 200 response to the webhook origin. I would make sure your code is returning a 200 to whatsapp.
As an alternative, try to set the webhook on glitch as explained here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/sample-app-endpoints#cloud-api-sample-app-endpoint
so that you can check if your meta account is valid.
From what I have found it seems that feature is now behind a paywall. It worked fine a few months ago on the free tier of ngrok. So you will need to upgrade your ngrok subscription for WhatsApp to start validating. You can read about it here. Try using Cloudflare tunnel.
I am using Python to directly run a script of automatically replying user's comments.
I have a client secrets file after applying for a web-application. However, when I run for credentials, it first asks me to Please visit this URL to authorize this application and then when I clicked on it, it gives me this error:
Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatch The redirect URI in the request, urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob, can only be used by a Client ID for native application. It is not allowed for the WEB client type. You can create a Client ID for native application at.
What application should I have applied for the OAuth in this case.
I know that this issue could be related to redirect URL. But because I am running this out of my script on my local computer, I am wondering what my URL should be.
You have to acknowledge that your issue above is precisely due to the redirect URI mismatch. The error response you got from the API is indicating you this.
To fix you issue, you'll have to have the same redirect URI set on your project within Google developers console and, at the same time, within your Python script.
If you indeed are running your application on your desktop (laptop) computer, then follow on the error message advice: within Google developers console, do set your project type to be of Desktop kind.
I am following this guide to build NodejS bot using Gupshup whatsapp https://www.gupshup.io/developer/docs/bot-platform/guide/gupshup-bot-library-for-node
I am running the code and getting the ngrok URL:
But when following steps are given, I get an error as below:
Not sure what is wrong here. Please let me know how can I solve this issue?
Sometimes ngrok service can be not reachable (for any reason).
First - make sure you can open ngrok link in the browser or by curl and make sure it reaches your server api.
Also if your backend check incoming requests for specific app key in header, you should also add it to url params, due to you have no way to manage GupShup api caller.
for the first time setting callback you need to return a 200 status.
res.status(200).send('ok');
Use this as first line for first time for setting callback and after call back is set you can comment this out. And save and relauch your code (make sure address of your hosted code is same don't restart ngrok :P) is same
I have created a basic C# bot in Azure and have been doing some tests with it. I am able to debug locally and test that the bot works and responds normally, However, Web Chat does not seem to work (either the "test in web chat" within Azure or the embed code provided under "Channels" menu. The bot does not respond and the following can be seen in the browser's console:
botchat.js:20 WebSocket connection to 'wss://webchat.botframework.com/v3/directline/conversations/b00803da186843c08e057a03f1af26d3/stream?watermark=5&t=PdrKaTBDGps.dAA.YgAwADAAOAAwADMAZABhADEAOAA2ADgANAAzAGMAMAA4AGUAMAA1ADcAYQAwADMAZgAxAGEAZgAyADYAZAAzAA.PWqO6rz50wE.O0xFG-RkTZ0.306EPN7-0X_MGGfBUujpWoKN8Xm942hqpn_BVxbRe_M'
failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 400
(anonymous) # botchat.js:20
This happens with any chat bot created in Azure even without any code changes but only when in my company environment, which is behind a proxy. I am almost certain that this is somehow the cause of the problem, but I have no clue why nor how I might approach the proxy team to report the problem nor what I may need to ask them to unblock.
The Question: Am I right to assume that this is a proxy problem or should I investigate something else and, if this is indeed a proxy issue, what do I need to do/ask to unblock to solve it?
Any help is highly appreciated!
This is definitely a Proxy issue, You can talk to your admin team and get these links removed from their firewall settings so you can get access. We do get this issue's in our company we do the same as i have suggested.\
Happy coding!!!
I have slackbox running locally, have created a Spotify dev application and have successfully authenticated slackbox. It says I am logged in at http://localhost:5000/. All of my variables have been set, including the slack token, in an .env file via dotenv.
All seems well there.
On the slack side, I have created a slash command mapped to /spotify that POSTs to http://localhost:5000/store. The slash command shows up in my command description list when typing.
When I attempt to use it though, I get an access denied message in chat, I'm assuming due to cross-domain issues:
ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved Access Denied.
According to their docs - https://github.com/benchmarkstudios/slackbox - running this locally should work. I also run a Hubot bot locally and it integrates fine with the same slack room.
Any help is appreciated!
https://sprint.ly/blog/5-steps-to-a-slack-integration/
Slack’s outgoing slash command requests need to be sent to a public facing url, which is a problem if we want to receive these messages to our local development server.
How do we solve this?
One way is with the use of a secure tunnel which acts as a public HTTPS URL for our local development server. Problem solved!
Who provides this service?
ForwardHQ provide the best user experience, including a browser extension for setting up a local tunnel in one click. They have a free 7 day trial.
My preferred option is ngrok. It’s free for one concurrent tunnel client, with no time restriction. Woop! Its a little harder to use but it does the job.