PHP-Laravel5 except csrf from another website - php

Question

I've tried to exclude requests from another localhost server (http://localhost:8080/order/placeorder) to another one localhost server (http://localhost:8000)
I don't want to disable all csrf protection by removing
\App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class in Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel.php
I've tried to modify app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php
protected $except = [
'http://localhost:8080/*',
'http://localhost:8080',
'/order/placeorder/*',
'http://localhost:8080/order/placeorder'
];
and I also tried this way
private $openRoutes = [
'http://localhost:8080/*',
'http://localhost:8080',
'/order/placeorder/*',
'http://localhost:8080/order/placeorder'
];
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
//add this condition
foreach($this->openRoutes as $route) {
if ($request->is($route)) {
return $next($request);
}
}
return parent::handle($request, $next);
}
But I still got this error
TokenMismatchException in VerifyCsrfToken.php
Can anyone suggest me what should I do and what I've done wrong?

Answer 1

The exceptions are routes within your own application that are excluded, not the URLs of servers that are requesting it. You will never put localhost, http, or any domain in these exceptions in normal circumstances. If you wish for a request by an external server to be accepted, I would disable CSRF protection for the routes it is accessing (because you want a cross-site request, that's what CSRF prevents).
For example, if you want any external server to be able to send a POST request to /order/placeorder, you would simply add that route to the exclusion. You also need to add any other route you want it to be able to access. If there are a lot, there are other more manageable ways to do this with middleware as well.
To authenticate the server making the request, it should send a token to verify itself. You can create a static token for this purpose (like an API key), or possibly use an OAuth implementation of some sort with access/refresh tokens - there is a package for Laravel for this that makes it easy.