This means that instead of the normal process of your users sending requests to your API, it's **your API** (or your app) that could **send requests to their system** (to their API, their app).

This is normally called a **webhook**.

## Webhooks steps

    byte[] data = baos.toByteArray();

    /* Setup input streams */
    DataInput in = new DataInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(data));

    /* Read in various values NORMALLY */
    byte[] b = new byte[2];
    in.readFully(b);
    assertEquals(-100, b[0]);
    assertEquals(100, b[1]);
    assertEquals(true, in.readBoolean());
    assertEquals(false, in.readBoolean());

    byte[] data = baos.toByteArray();

    /* Setup input streams */
    DataInput in = new DataInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(data));

    /* Read in various values NORMALLY */
    byte[] b = new byte[2];
    in.readFully(b);
    assertEquals(-100, b[0]);
    assertEquals(100, b[1]);
    assertEquals(true, in.readBoolean());
    assertEquals(false, in.readBoolean());

* `refactor`: Refactors
    * This is normally for changes to the internal code that don't change the behavior. Normally it improves maintainability, or enables future features, etc.
* `upgrade`: Upgrades

Although any other parameter declared normally (for example, the body with a Pydantic model) would still be validated, converted, annotated, etc.

But there are specific cases where it's useful to get the `Request` object.

## Use the `Request` object directly

Here's a short description of how the FastAPI repository is managed and maintained.

## Owner

I, <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo" target="_blank">@tiangolo</a>, am the creator and owner of the FastAPI repository. 🤓

# FastAPI in Containers - Docker

When deploying FastAPI applications a common approach is to build a **Linux container image**. It's normally done using <a href="https://www.docker.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank">**Docker**</a>. You can then deploy that container image in one of a few possible ways.

Using Linux containers has several advantages including **security**, **replicability**, **simplicity**, and others.

/// tip

"vendor/golang.org/x/crypto/cryptobyte". When a package with the
same path is imported from a package outside std or cmd, it will
be resolved normally. Consequently, a binary may be built with two
copies of a package at different versions if the package is
imported normally and vendored by the standard library.

Vendored packages are internally renamed with a "vendor/" prefix

## Security - HTTPS

In the [previous chapter about HTTPS](https.md){.internal-link target=_blank} we learned about how HTTPS provides encryption for your API.

We also saw that HTTPS is normally provided by a component **external** to your application server, a **TLS Termination Proxy**.

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