Adds a docs/ folder under the repo root with full operator documentation
aimed at sysadmins (not webhook developers). The Zerto pre/post script
recipe is the canonical "why does this exist" walkthrough; the GitHub
HMAC, AD password reset, and UI-on-desktop recipes round out common
patterns.
Pages:
- README.md (index)
- concepts.md (5-minute "what is a webhook" explainer)
- installation.md (interactive + silent install)
- upgrading.md (single-click upgrade flow + edge cases)
- uninstalling.md (clean removal + wiping ProgramData)
- runas-modes.md (Service / InteractiveUser / SpecificUser decision flow)
- service-account-and-ad.md (gMSA setup, delegated rights)
- network-and-security.md (bind addresses, allowlists, HTTPS, secret storage)
- troubleshooting.md (symptom -> first check, common errors)
- recipes/zerto-pre-post-scripts.md (canonical use case)
- recipes/github-style-hmac.md (GitHub / Stripe-shaped webhooks)
- recipes/ad-password-reset.md (gMSA-backed self-service reset)
- recipes/ui-on-desktop.md (InteractiveUser pattern)
Top-level README.md restructured to point at docs/ as the source of
truth, dropping the duplicated installation snippets.
Installer ships docs/ alongside the binaries so they're available
offline at C:\Program Files\WebhookServer\docs\. GUI Help menu gains
a "Documentation" item that opens the docs site in a browser.
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* v0.1.1: GUI auto-elevates, installer stops service before file copy
Two fixes for the v0.1.0 install experience:
1. Embed app.manifest with requestedExecutionLevel=requireAdministrator
so the GUI always elevates. The named pipe is ACL'd to SYSTEM and
the Administrators group, but UAC token splitting puts Admins in
deny-only on the standard token, so launching the GUI from the
Start Menu fails to connect with "Access is denied". The manifest
forces UAC to elevate, surfaces the shield icon on the shortcut,
and matches the reality that the GUI cannot function without
admin rights.
2. Add a [Code] PrepareToInstall hook to webhook-server.iss that runs
`sc stop WebhookServer` before file copy. Upgrade installs were
failing on locked binaries because the running service held the
exes open. sc returns non-zero on fresh installs (no service yet)
which we ignore.
Bumps Version to 0.1.1.
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* Rename "Backups" menu item to "Config Checkpoints"
User-facing copy only; internal API names (Backups collection,
BackupEntry, list-backups op, etc.) stay the same to avoid churn
through the wire protocol and existing on-disk files. The new
phrasing makes the auto-snapshot-before-save model more discoverable.
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* Installer: synchronous service stop + kill stray GUI/Service processes
The previous sc.exe stop is fire-and-forget; on slower machines the
file-copy step started before the service had actually released its
binaries, leaving the upgrade in a broken state. Switch to net.exe
stop which blocks until the service reports STOPPED.
Also taskkill any running WebhookServer.Gui.exe (the user might have
left the tray running) and any orphan WebhookServer.Service.exe (from
deploy.ps1 dev runs) so all copies of the binaries are unlocked
before [Files] runs.
Pre-flight ServiceExists() check via sc query so the installer only
calls "net stop" when there is actually a service to stop, rather
than relying on net's error code.
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* Phase 3: app icon (multi-resolution ICO + master PNG)
scripts/generate-icons.ps1 renders the icon programmatically with
System.Drawing - rounded teal square (#0E7C66) with a stylized white
hook glyph - at 16/24/32/48/64/128/256 px and assembles a proper
multi-resolution Microsoft ICO. The PNG and ICO outputs land in
resources/. The script is the source of truth; re-run after editing
the design.
GUI csproj uses ApplicationIcon for the EXE icon and embeds the .ico
+ .png as Resources so MainWindow and AboutDialog can use them via
WPF's resource URI scheme.
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* Phase 5: tray icon with minimize-to-tray and context menu
GUI csproj enables UseWindowsForms (NotifyIcon lives in WinForms even
in .NET 8). New Services/TrayIcon.cs wraps NotifyIcon with a context
menu (Open / Restart service / Exit) and the embedded webhook-server
icon. MainWindow creates the TrayIcon, hides itself on minimize and
restores on tray double-click.
Adds GlobalUsings.cs to alias the WPF defaults for types that exist
in both WPF and WinForms (Application, MessageBox, TextBox, Binding,
etc.) so existing code keeps compiling without per-file changes.
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* Phase 6+7: Inno Setup installer + GitHub Actions release pipeline
installer/webhook-server.iss is an Inno Setup 6 script that:
- Installs to %ProgramFiles%\WebhookServer
- Creates Start Menu folder + GUI shortcut (and optional desktop icon)
- Runs install-service.ps1 post-install to register the Windows Service
- Runs uninstall-service.ps1 pre-uninstall to remove it
- Bundles the webhook-server icon for the installer / uninstaller
scripts/build-installer.ps1 is the local build helper: publishes both
projects, finds ISCC.exe (PATH or standard install path), compiles the
installer with the version pulled from Directory.Build.props, drops the
output in dist/.
.github/workflows/ci.yml runs build + test on every push/PR to main.
.github/workflows/release.yml triggers on v* tags (or manual dispatch),
runs tests, installs Inno Setup via choco, builds the installer, and
attaches the .exe to a GitHub Release. Pre-1.0 versions are flagged
prerelease automatically.
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* Phase 4: backups + import/export config
ConfigStore.SaveAsync now snapshots the previous config to
%ProgramData%\WebhookServer\backups\config-<timestamp>.json before
overwriting, retaining the last 30. Failures are silent so a
backup-write hiccup never blocks an actual save.
Three new admin pipe ops:
- list-backups: returns newest 50 entries with timestamps and sizes
- restore-backup: takes a fileName, refuses path-traversal chars,
loads the named backup over the live config (which itself triggers
a fresh backup of the current state via the SaveAsync hook)
- import-config: replaces the current config with a GUI-supplied
ServerConfig, merging encrypted secrets where the GUI didn't supply
new plaintext
GUI File menu items are wired:
- Import config: file picker -> ImportConfigAsync
- Export config: SaveFileDialog writes the current config as JSON
- Backups: dynamic submenu auto-refreshed when opened, listing
backups with timestamp + size; click to confirm-and-restore
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- Directory.Build.props sets Version=0.1.0 (semver pre-1.0 = beta) plus
Authors / Product / RepositoryUrl, picked up by all three projects.
- MainWindow gets a real menu bar (File / Server / Help) replacing the
old toolbar. File: New endpoint / Import / Export / Backups (last
three are stubs for the next phase) / Exit. Server: Settings /
Restart service. Help: About.
- Drop the Refresh button - the 3 s polling loop covers it.
- DataGridRow gets a right-click context menu: Edit / Copy URL /
toggle Enabled / Delete.
- New About dialog reads AssemblyInformationalVersion at runtime and
links jpaul.me + the GitHub repo via clickable hyperlinks.
- Ctrl+N input binding for new-endpoint.
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ServerConfig grows two fields:
- BindAddresses: list of IPs Kestrel binds to (empty = all interfaces,
current behavior). Listening only on a subset is useful when the host
has multiple NICs and the webhook should not be reachable on all of
them.
- DisplayHost: the hostname/IP the GUI splices into the URL column and
Copy URL button. Cosmetic; doesn't affect what the server accepts.
Server Settings dialog gains a "Network" section: a checkbox for "all
interfaces" plus per-NIC checkboxes auto-detected via NetworkInterface.
GetAllNetworkInterfaces, and an editable ComboBox for the display host
pre-populated with detected IPs and the machine name.
Listener restart fires on BindAddresses change but not on DisplayHost
change (cosmetic).
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Setting lpDesktop on STARTUPINFO forces the child to open that desktop;
the LogonUser-derived token in SpecificUser mode usually cannot, since
winsta0\default's DACL only grants the currently-logged-in user. The
result was STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED (exit 0xC0000142) with empty stdio.
Only InteractiveUser mode needs the explicit interactive desktop -
that whole point of the mode is to land in the user's session. For
SpecificUser, leaving lpDesktop null lets the child inherit our
service desktop, which works for headless batch tasks (AD reads, file
ops, etc.).
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CreateProcessWithLogonW (which ProcessStartInfo.UserName/Password uses
under the hood) refuses to run when the caller is LocalSystem - which
is exactly the scenario every hook hits, since the service runs as
SYSTEM by default. The hook just got "Access is denied" with no useful
context.
Switch SpecificUser to the same LogonUser + DuplicateTokenEx +
CreateProcessAsUser path that InteractiveUser already uses. The
launcher tries LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE first, falling back to
LOGON32_LOGON_BATCH for accounts without interactive-logon rights
(typical for service-only users). Domain "." is normalized to the
machine name so ".\justin" works.
The launcher's two public entry points - LaunchAsActiveConsoleUser
and LaunchAsSpecificUser - share the same LaunchWithToken core, so
stdio capture and environment-block construction stay identical.
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Hook runs were silently dropping their result into the void after
returning the HTTP response. For sync runs the body went to the
caller but nothing was logged; for async runs the result vanished
unless a callback was configured. That made debugging RunAs
failures (logon errors, missing executables) effectively
impossible since the service log only showed the 202.
Now every run emits one log line at INF (success) or WRN
(non-zero exit / timeout / launch error) with runId, slug, exit
code, duration, and truncated stdout/stderr.
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Native per-endpoint identity instead of the schtasks bridge:
- Service (default) keeps the existing path - hooks inherit the service
account (SYSTEM by default, or whatever you installed under).
- SpecificUser binds ProcessStartInfo.UserName / Password / Domain so
the hook runs in a batch logon session as the named account. Useful
for AD-write hooks that should NOT run as SYSTEM.
- InteractiveUser uses WTSQueryUserToken(WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId)
+ DuplicateTokenEx + CreateProcessAsUser to drop the child into the
logged-in user's session with their environment block. This is the
real fix for "calc.exe should pop up on my desktop" - no Task
Scheduler bridge required. Stdio is captured via inheritable
anonymous pipes so the hook still returns stdout/stderr to the
caller normally.
Implementation:
- New RunAsMode enum + RunAsConfig model on EndpointConfig
- ConfigStore round-trips RunAs.Password through DPAPI alongside
bearer/HMAC/PFX secrets
- AdminPipeServer's secret-merge logic preserves the encrypted blob
when the GUI saves an endpoint without re-typing the password
- New WebhookServer.Core.Execution.Native namespace with NativeMethods
(P/Invoke) and InteractiveProcessLauncher (token-based launcher)
- ProcessExecutor branches on RunAs.Mode; the Service/SpecificUser
paths share .NET's Process; InteractiveUser uses the launcher
- GUI editor gets a "Run as" section: dropdown + conditional
username/password/load-profile fields under SpecificUser
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PowerShell 5.1 reads .ps1 files as the local ANSI codepage by default,
so non-ASCII characters get garbled. An em-dash inside a string literal
broke install-service.ps1 with a parser error. Sticking to ASCII in
script source avoids the entire class of issue.
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sc.exe query writes "The specified service does not exist" to stdout
when the service is missing, so checking truthy on its output was
useless — it always took the update branch and silently failed when
piped to Out-Null. Switch to Get-Service which returns $null cleanly,
and stop swallowing sc.exe output so missing-service / permission /
account errors actually surface as PowerShell errors.
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GUI:
- URL column in endpoint grid + Copy URL toolbar button so the full
http://host:port/hook/<slug> is one click away
- Double-click a row to open the edit dialog
- Bearer/HMAC sections in the editor hide when the auth mode doesn't
use them, and reappear with previously-entered values when switched
back
- Log panel auto-scroll checkbox (default on) plus 3s polling so log
entries stream in without manual refresh
- Secret fields are now plain text with a Copy button. Anyone who can
open the admin-pipe-ACL'd GUI is already SYSTEM-equivalent on the
host, so masking the value just made recovery harder. PFX password
in Server Settings gets the same treatment.
Service:
- Admin pipe ops log info-level lines on every mutation
(create/update/delete/enable/disable/update-config/bind-https) so
GUI activity is visible in the Serilog file
- /hook/{slug} accepts GET as well as POST so a browser smoke-test
works without curl
- /favicon.ico returns 204 so browser hits don't pollute logs with 404s
- AdminPipeServer no longer strips plaintext secrets when sending
config to the GUI; the pipe ACL already restricts to SYSTEM/Admins
Scripts:
- New deploy.ps1: stops + republishes + copies binaries to
C:\Program Files\WebhookServer + (re)installs the Windows Service
- install-service.ps1 now uses sc.exe argv splatting consistently for
both create and config paths
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Stands up an isolated data root, seeds a single sample endpoint, opens
the service in its own window, then launches the GUI with the matching
WEBHOOKSERVER_DATA environment variable. Refuses to run from a
non-elevated shell since the admin pipe is ACL'd to SYSTEM and
Administrators only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PowerShell's -Command treats trailing argv entries as part of the
command-line text rather than as $args, so a hook with an inline
command and an arg template raised a parser error. Wrap inline commands
in a scriptblock with @args splat, and pipe $input into the block so
{{body.*}} arg templates AND stdin JSON both reach the script. Verified
end-to-end against ping, bearer (good/bad/missing), HMAC (good/bad/missing),
IP allowlist deny, async 202, and stdin+template combined.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the .NET 8 solution scaffolded against PLAN.md. Three projects share
WebhookServer.Core (models, auth, execution, storage, IPC, callbacks)
and WebhookServer.Service hosts an embedded Kestrel listener plus the
named-pipe admin server. WebhookServer.Gui is a thin MVVM client over
the pipe. Includes 25 unit tests covering HMAC verification, bearer
auth, IP allowlist parsing, arg-template rendering, DPAPI round-trip,
and the encrypt-on-save config store.
Install/uninstall PowerShell scripts default to LocalSystem and accept
a domain user or gMSA via -ServiceAccount.
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Add a Service account section to PLAN.md and README.md covering
LocalSystem, domain user, and gMSA install paths so users running AD
PowerShell scripts know which identity to pick. Drop the stale
"outbound webhook delivery" out-of-scope bullet now that callbacks are
in v1.
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Per-endpoint optional callback URL: service POSTs run result after async
runs (and optionally sync). Reuses inbound HMAC code path for outbound
signing. No caller-supplied URLs (SSRF risk). Bounded queue, exponential
backoff with jitter, configurable retries.
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Empty project scaffolded with the approved implementation plan,
README overview, and a .NET-appropriate .gitignore. Implementation
will follow on a Windows machine.
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