Recurly Webhook ID

Question

I am trying to prevent Recurly Webhooks from being executed multiple times if they are retried incorrectly (i.e.: when builds go out and servers time out occasionally). I see in the dashboard that webhooks have unique IDs, but these don't seem to be accessible in the message hash, am I missing something? I'm using Rails for what it's worth.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<updated_subscription_notification>
  <account>
    <account_code>1</account_code>
    <username nil="true"></username>
    <email>verena@example.com</email>
    <first_name>Verena</first_name>
    <last_name>Example</last_name>
    <company_name nil="true"></company_name>
  </account>
  <subscription>
    <plan>
      <plan_code>1dpt</plan_code>
      <name>Subscription One</name>
    </plan>
    <uuid>292332928954ca62fa48048be5ac98ec</uuid>
    <state>active</state>
    <quantity type="integer">1</quantity>
    <total_amount_in_cents type="integer">200</total_amount_in_cents>
    <activated_at type="datetime">2010-09-23T22:12:39Z</activated_at>
    <canceled_at nil="true" type="datetime"></canceled_at>
    <expires_at nil="true" type="datetime"></expires_at>
    <current_period_started_at type="datetime">2010-09-23T22:03:30Z</current_period_started_at>
    <current_period_ends_at type="datetime">2010-09-24T22:03:30Z</current_period_ends_at>
    <trial_started_at nil="true" type="datetime">
    </trial_started_at>
    <trial_ends_at nil="true" type="datetime">
    </trial_ends_at>
    <collection_method>automatic</collection_method>
  </subscription>
</updated_subscription_notification>

Answer 1

Unfortunately the only way to stop webhooks from being resent is to reply with a 200 status code with 5 seconds.(https://docs.recurly.com/docs/webhooks)

It was 30 seconds but that got changed November 2015 I think.

Anyway I solved it by throwing the message off to a queue and immediately responding with 200 response.