Laravel 10: Encountering Unexpected Behavior with Middleware for API Rate Limiting
I'm relatively new to this, so bear with me. I'm relatively new to this, so bear with me. I'm currently facing an issue with implementing middleware for rate limiting in my Laravel 10 API. I have set up a custom middleware to limit requests to 100 per minute, but it seems that users are exceeding this limit without being blocked. I have defined the middleware like this: ```php namespace App\Http\Middleware; use Closure; use Illuminate\Http\Request; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache; class RateLimitMiddleware { public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next) { $key = 'rate_limit:' . $request->ip(); $rate = Cache::get($key, 0); if ($rate >= 100) { return response()->json(['message' => 'Too many requests.'], 429); } Cache::put($key, $rate + 1, 60); return $next($request); } } ``` I registered the middleware in `api.php` like this: ```php Route::middleware(['rate.limit'])->group(function () { Route::get('/some-endpoint', [SomeController::class, 'someMethod']); }); ``` However, users report that they're able to send more than 100 requests in a minute without hitting the limit. I've checked the cache configuration and everything seems to be correct. Additionally, I'm using Redis as my cache driver, configured like this in `config/cache.php`: ```php 'default' => env('CACHE_DRIVER', 'redis'), ``` I also tried logging the rate count in the middleware to see how many requests are being counted, and it shows the expected counts, but the blocking logic doesn't seem to trigger appropriately. Am I missing something in the middleware logic or the configuration? Any insights would be greatly appreciated! I'm working on a API that needs to handle this. This is part of a larger application I'm building. Is there a better approach? This is for a REST API running on Windows 10.