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How to Build Laravel 12 API From Scratch
Why 404 Page? Setting Correct Headers
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Summary of this lesson:
- Handling API 404 errors correctly- Seeing different ways for setting proper API headers
- Customizing API error messages for better security
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In this lesson, we will set one correct header value to avoid returning web pages instead of JSON results.
As you can see in the /api/categories/1, we see data for one category.
But what happens if we pass a missing category? We get an HTML page.
But for API, it is wrong. API expects the result as a JSON. In your client, set the headers to Accept -> application/json. Now Laravel knows to send the result as a JSON.
Another way is to set headers using Middleware. First, let's create a Middleware.
php artisan make:middleware AlwaysAcceptJsonInside Middleware, we have a Request. Middleware is not just for preventing something; you can also add something...
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