Adding response headers to laravel 401 api response

Question

Am using laravel with android and whenever a 401 error is triggered in laravel i would like to attach to the 401 error a custom header

WWW-Authenticate: xBasic realm=32334

Whenever a 401 response is returned to android i get

com.android.volley.NoConnectionError: java.io.IOException: No authentication challenges found

So after aresearch i found out the problem is due to the fact that i need to add a header to the response given i laravel

So am using the default passport oauth/token route which routes are set in authservice provider like

 public function boot()
  {
     $this->registerPolicies();
     Route::group(['middleware'=>'appconnection'], function(){
         Passport::routes();
     });
  }

As from above ive added an appconnection middleware to passport routes now i want to handle the response to check if 401 is ever returned and add the custom header

so in my middleware am stuck at adding the header

class AppConnectionMiddleware
 {
   public function handle($request, Closure $next)
     {
       $returned = $next($request);
         //check if $returned has a 401 status response 
         //am stuck here

     }
 }

So how do i manipulate the response to include the custom response header

what version of laravel you are using?

Prashant Barve
– Prashant Barve

2018-03-27 10:06:36 +00:00
Commented Mar 27, 2018 at 10:06 — Prashant Barve
– Prashant Barve, Commented Mar 27, 2018 at 10:06

online Thomas · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-27 10:01:38Z

1

public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
    $response = $next($request);

    if ($response->status() == 401) {
         $response->header('WWW-Authenticate', 'xBasic realm=32334')
    }

    return $response;
}

edited Mar 27, 2018 at 10:01

answered Mar 27, 2018 at 7:28

online Thomas

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Geoff Over a year ago

should this be $request->status() or $response->status()

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