Episode 119 - Reading Alexa's Signature
Two Voice Devs
English - November 03, 2022 15:00 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBTechnology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Not every technology we deal with in Voice is a #VoiceFirst technology, sometimes we need some "adjacent" skill. This week, Mark discusses some recent issues he had involving the validation signature that Alexa provides to skills that run outside AWS Lambda, and Allen provides his perspectives about how these same issues were addressed using Google's Dialogflow.
Resources:
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/host-a-custom-skill-as-a-web-service.html#check-request-signature
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs/host-web-service.html#usage
https://github.com/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs/commit/a1652383648e9e9da42b301aa033a4143f9cdf64
https://stackoverflow.com/a/62699910/1405634