php - disable csrf in laravel for specific route

Question

I've a payment system, where data is submitted to 3rd party site and than hauled back...

When data returns it hits specific url lets say /ok route. $_REQUEST['transaction'].

But because of laravel middleware I'm getting token mismatch. There is no way 3rd party payment API can generate token, so how I disable it? only for this route?

or is there a better option?

Route::get('/payment/ok',   'TransactionsController@Ok');
Route::get('/payment/fail', 'TransactionsController@Fail');

public function Ok( Request $request )
{
    $transId = $request->get('trans_id');

    if ( isset( $transId ) )
    {

        return $transId;

    }

}

Answer 1

Since version 5.1 Laravel's VerifyCsrfToken middleware allows to specify routes, that are excluded from CSRF validation. In order to achieve that, you need to add the routes to $except array in your AppHttpMiddlewareVerifyCsrfToken.php class:

<?php namespace AppHttpMiddleware;

use IlluminateFoundationHttpMiddlewareVerifyCsrfToken as BaseVerifier;

class VerifyCsrfToken extends BaseVerifier
{
  protected $except = [
    'payment/*',
  ];
}

See the docs for more information.