Forcing Laravel response status code

Question

I'm building a REST API in Laravel and when a new user is created I want to return a 201 status code and a Location header to point to the new resource.

Most of that is being achieved using this code:

$response = Response::make(null, 201)->header('Location', Config::get('app.url') . '/v1/users/' . $user->id);
return $response;

However Laravel seems to be overriding what I set as the status code because I'm setting a Location header, as I'm getting a 302 Moved Temporarily header back.

How can I force a 201 status code even when I'm specifying a Location header?

Fair play for implementing proper response codes. I really don't know why Laravel (which I have huge respect for) doesn't encourage returning "201 Created" for success in the Create method by default. Good work! — Martin Joiner
– Martin Joiner, Commented Oct 16, 2017 at 15:51

Laurence · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-31 00:37:04Z

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The problem is when you set the header() location, it is overwriting the Laravel response.

If you add 201 status to the header() function - it should work I think:

$response = Response::make(null, 201)->header('Location', Config::get('app.url') . '/v1/users/' . $user->id, true, 201);
return $response;

answered Oct 31, 2014 at 0:37

Laurence

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John Dorean Over a year ago

Brilliant thanks, wasn't aware the header() method took those extra parameters.

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