Outgoing Webhooks or Slash Command without sending "data" in request

Troubleshooting
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Hello guys.
I want to trigger some on-prem GitLab pipelines via “Outgoing Webhooks” or “Slash Command”. But it looks like GitLab does not accept some data that Mattermost send in outgoing request. I don’t know what exactly data is, but when I send a request via CURL to the same URL without data - all work fine. When Mattermost sends, I am got 404. I got the same result with “Outgoing Webhooks” nor “Slash Command.” Is it possible to send a request on Mattermost without including any data?

I appreciate your advice!

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Hi @yokodzun and welcome to the Mattermost forums!

The outgoing webhooks always send data to the endpoint, you can see an example in the documentation:

It’s interesting though that you get a 404 here, which means not found - are you sure that the URL is correct or are you maybe getting a different error (401, f.ex. because the GitLab endpoint expects a GET request and not a POST request)?
Custom Slash Commands can be configured to use the GET request method and therefore do not send any data at all.

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Yes, I used the same webhook-url in curl -X POST request, got a 200 OK code, and triggered pipeline.

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OK, in this case I suggest to use a custom slash command which will allow you to specify the payload in the hopes that Gitlab will accept this then.