From 531c208e62da1936a9f7ca30e6a88dd30a85c899 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Job van der Voort <job@gitlab.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:12:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] update documentation on web hooks by suggestion [ci skip]
---
doc/web_hooks/web_hooks.md | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/web_hooks/web_hooks.md b/doc/web_hooks/web_hooks.md
index a0280e1c735..c185ccfcac3 100644
--- a/doc/web_hooks/web_hooks.md
+++ b/doc/web_hooks/web_hooks.md
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ Web hooks can be used to update an external issue tracker, trigger CI builds, up
## SSL Verification
-Web hooks do SSL verification by default.
+By default, the SSL certificate of the webhook endpoint is verified based on
+an internal list of Certificate Authorities,
+which means the certificate cannot be self-signed.
+
You can turn this off in the web hook settings in your GitLab projects.
@@ -534,4 +537,4 @@ When you press 'Test Hook' in GitLab, you should see something like this in the
{"before":"077a85dd266e6f3573ef7e9ef8ce3343ad659c4e","after":"95cd4a99e93bc4bbabacfa2cd10e6725b1403c60",<SNIP>}
example.com - - [14/May/2014:07:45:26 EDT] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 0
- -> /
-```
+```
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