laravel 5.5 The page has expired due to inactivity. Please refresh and try again

Question

I'm new with Laravel and I have a problem which I don't understand. I have а log form in my project and my method is POST. When I try a request the result is:

'The page has expired due to inactivity. Please refresh and try again.'

But if I change the method to GET, It works fine.

Can someone tell me why is that and how to fix it? because of course I need POST method.

Answer 1

This problem comes from the CSRF token verification which fails. So either you're not posting one or you're posting an incorrect one.

The reason it works for GET is that for a GET route in Laravel, there is no CSRF token posted.

You can either post a CSRF token in your form by calling:

{{ csrf_field() }} 

Or exclude your route (NOT RECOMMENDED DUE TO SECURITY) in app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php:

protected $except = [     'your/route' ];