page expired exception in laravel?

Question

This is often seen in Laravel. When a form is submitted, sometimes the application redirects to a page saying:

The page has expired due to inactivity.

Please refresh and try again.

I know that this is a security mechanism in Laravel against CSRF. How can it be prevented from displaying since this may not be appropriate when application is deployed in production server.

Answer 1

It's the 419.blade.php template that is being resolved.

If you want to change the message, you can make this file in views/errors/419.blade.php

If you want to capture the exception and perform your own actions against it, you can use the App\Exceptions\Handler.php and specifically capture $e instanceof TokenMismatchException.

Then within that conditional you can choose what action to take.