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Gaurav Mehta
Gaurav Mehta

Reputation: 1153

Laravel Not Encrypting Cookies

I am facing an issue where Laravel is not encrypting a Cookie that I am setting in a middleware. Due to this, when I try to retrieve the cookie value in another controller its value is coming blank. Below is my Middleware code

public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if($request->hasCookie('uuid'))
{
    return $next($request);
}
else
{
    $uuid = Uuid::generate();
    if (Auth::check())
        $user_id = Auth::user()->id;
    else
        $user_id = '';

    Visitors::create([
        'user_id' => $user_id,
        'uuid' => $uuid
    ]);

    $response = $next($request);
    return $response->withCookie(cookie()->forever('uuid', $uuid));
}
}

I have created a UUID middleware to set a UUID parameter anytime someone comes to the site. I am using this middleware in my routes.

This is causing the UUID cookie to be set but it is not encrypted.

In another controller function, when I try to retrieve the value of the uuid cookie using

$uuid = Request::Cookie(uuid);

it is coming out blank.

(Note that I am using 2 middlewares for my route ('uuid', 'web'). If I change the sequence of middleware in my routes to ('web', 'uuid'), I start getting TokenExceptionError.)

Anyone faced a similar issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1251

Answers (1)

jedrzej.kurylo
jedrzej.kurylo

Reputation: 40909

It seems your uuid middleware is run before middleware that encrypts cookies. Middleware for your route group is defined as ['uuid', 'web'] and middleware that encrypts/decrypts cookies is in web group.

Add your middleware at the end of web group or change the order of middlewares in your route group to ['web', 'uuid'].

Upvotes: 0

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