How to fix Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)

Question

I'm setting up my laravel application and every time I run php artisan serve, it starts a laravel development serve at localhost:8000. Bu when i open the locahost link on the browser, it forces the http to https and logs invalid request (unsupported SSl request). What do you advise me to do to resolve this?

I have tried forcing the HTTPS mod rewrite rule to http:// on the .htaccess file and it still persists.

This is the command line

C:\Users\topaz\cashurban>php artisan serve
Laravel development server started: <http://127.0.0.1:8000>
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:07 2019] 127.0.0.1:60410 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60418 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60419 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60420 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60421 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60423 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60409 [200]: /assets/img/slider-1.jpg
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60425 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60426 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60427 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60411 [200]: /assets/img/slider-2.jpg
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60435 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60437 [200]: /assets/img/slider-3.jpg
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60439 [200]: /assets/img/icon-1-1.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60438 [200]: /assets/img/images/index-Recovereddashboard_03.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60440 [200]: /assets/img/icon-2-1.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60442 [200]: /assets/img/icon-3-1.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:08 2019] 127.0.0.1:60447 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60448 [200]: /assets/img/tor1.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60450 [200]: /assets/img/tor2.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60452 [200]: /assets/img/tor3.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60455 [200]: /assets/img/images/visa.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60453 [200]: /assets/img/images/remita.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60454 [200]: /assets/img/images/master-card.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60460 [200]: /assets/img/images/verve.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60461 [200]: /assets/img/images/indexpartners_11.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60462 [200]: /assets/img/images/bank-branches.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60463 [200]: /assets/img/images/indexpower_03.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60464 [200]: /assets/img/images/paystack.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:09 2019] 127.0.0.1:60465 [200]: /assets/img/images/chams.png
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:10 2019] 127.0.0.1:60468 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Thu Aug 22 23:06:10 2019] 127.0.0.1:60469 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)

this is the .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    #Force Https

    #RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    #RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]


    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

    #Api Redirect
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    #RewriteRule ^/api$ api.%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]


    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    #GZip Compression
    <ifModule mod_gzip.c>
      #mod_gzip_on Yes
      #mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
      #mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|xml|json|pl)$
      #mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
      #mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
      #mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
      #mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
      #mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
    </ifModule>

    #php_value auto_prepend_file /home/example_project/public_html/error_handler_slack.php
    php_value auto_prepend_file error_handler_slack.php
</IfModule>

I expect that it serves on http://localhost and not https://localhost as it is currently redirecting

Answer 1

I solved this later, just in case anyone has a similar problem in the future, I discovered the AppServiceProvider class had a register method where a security interception middleware was registered to force every HTTP request to HTTPS. So I wrote an if-else logic to allow this only on production since my localhost had no SSL certificate.

in app/providers/AppServiceProvider.php

look for the register() method, then implement the logic by checking whether the app is local or not. The isLocal() method checks your .env file for APP_ENV variable and returns true if it is local, so you reconfirm again that, that is set to local and be sure to clear any previous configuration cache.

//check that app is local
if ($this->app->isLocal()) {
//if local register your services you require for development
    $this->app->register('Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider');
} else {
//else register your services you require for production
    $this->app['request']->server->set('HTTPS', true);
}

Answer 2

This is how I fixed my Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)

NB: All these changes must be worked on from your project root directory

1. Delete all files inside the bootstrap\cache folder (except the .gitignore file, that is if you have one)

2. Delete the vendor folder

3. Type composer install or composer update in command line terminal to install or update the necessary files and configurations back

Answer 3

1. First make sure the APP_URL in the .env file is something like this: APP_URL=http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1:8000
2. Change APP_ENV=production to APP_ENV=development
3. Then run php artisan serve again

if above method doesn't work

Edit the /app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php file: URL::forceScheme('https'); to URL::forceScheme('http');

and run the application again