I am trying to submit a POST request via the Webflow flow logic and I keep getting a bad response. I am guessing it is because I am passing a long character string (token) and Webflow is bot filtering it. I have tried embedding a form as a work around, but that didn’t seem to help.
The old site used Gravity Forms, so if there is a competitor product like that I can use, I would do it, but I haven’t seen anything in the forums.
Hi Jeremy, why not make the POST request directly from the form without Logic?
You’d need some JS to handle responses and possibly reformat the request but it gives you a lot more control and you can display a legit success / fail response instead of “well it probably worked…”
Yes, basically. You’d set the action URL to your endpoint, and configure the form to POST.
From there it depends on your endpoint and what you want to do with the response. Your script would handle any headers, e.g. content-type, and decide whether you’re sending JSON or something else. You’d want to check for success and handle error responses as well.
In fact there’s a good chance you’ll just be able to use my SA5 webhook handler for webflow forms using the other setting. It won’t “know” the service-specific response codes to handle but looks at response code ranges and if your service sends valid success/error codes back that should work perfectly.
If you’re going directly to your own webhook, there is zero spam filtering Webflow, recaptcha, etc. are not involved at all.
Typically you have the opposite problem, in that you might get spam sent to your webhook. In some automations and public APIs, I actually setup my own spam filtering step to guard against that.
