The request response was returned in $kernel->handle($request)

Question

this is code from laravel API public/index.php file.

$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);

$response = $kernel->handle(
    $request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
);

$response->send();

$kernel->terminate($request, $response);

When sending a request it returns without any data and with status code: 200 just from $kernel->handle.

When I print dd('111'); before

$response = $kernel->handle(
    $request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
);

it is shown in request's reponse, but when I print after $response = $kernel->handle(), the request has no response.

Answer 1

I had exactly the same issue - empty response with 200 http status. Adding breakpoints showed that it couldn't get past the $kernel->handle() call in the index.php.

Turns out it was caused by whitespace in my .env file

MAIL_FROM_NAME=Test Instance

should have been enclosed in quote marks

MAIL_FROM_NAME="Test Instance"