A few days ago I got my start with forms. After a rocky start I could send email perfectly.
For reasons probably too lengthy for here, I’d like to switch to a webhook for my form.
If I put a clickable link with the webhook url with “&test=123”, I’ll see that logged in the Google Sheet my webhook hits.
If I put the same URL in the forms settings for webhook, the submit button doesn’t seem to do anything.
I believe the difference is the form submit causes the host, chillidog in this case, to source the webhook from the web server. The link sources the get/post from the visitor’s web browser.
Is there a way to open a site at chillidog to do outbound https?
When using the webhooks feature, the form sends the request server-side — this keeps your webhook URL private and prevents it from being exposed in the page’s HTML or browser network requests. You generally don’t want a webhook URL to be public because anyone who finds it could trigger fake submissions or send unwanted data to your connected service.
The webhook feature is intended for integrations like Zapier, where the form data is securely handled server-side. It isn’t designed to post directly to destinations such as Google Sheets. If you don’t want to use Zapier (or similar), then I know that some users have worked around this by creating a small intermediary PHP script that receives the form submission and then forwards it to their chosen service (Google Sheets, in your case)
