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Laravel Middleware Package

Please do not use this on production - it doesn't even have tests!

Purpose: Add a middleware to your Laravel project that will reduce redirect hops down to 1 redirect.

Sometimes, through no fault of your own, you can end up with redirects after redirects before your website's visitors finally end up on their destination page.

Why: SEO folk keep saying that a single redirect hop is better. This makes any SEO practitioner giddy and you didn't have to do anything difficult to combine all the possible redirect hops into a single one.

How: It works by placing itself (tries to anyway) as the last middleware and intercepts redirects. Upon intercepting a redirect, it creates an internal request to check if the next response is also a redirect. Only works with GET requests!

Installation

composer require sperelson/laravel-single-redirect

Extra information

The package adds a header called single-redirect on each internal request. And inserts the single-redirect header into the final redirect response with the count of redirects. If 1 then it did not do anything for you. If the count is higher than 1 then it turned the response into a single redirect for the user.