get('token'); if (!$token) { // try to load the token from referer $query = array(); parse_str( parse_url($request->header('referer'), PHP_URL_QUERY), $query ); if (isset($query['token'])) { $token = $query['token']; } } // we will match it against the `SWAGGER_DOCS_TOKEN` environment variable if ($token === env('SWAGGER_DOCS_TOKEN')) { return $next($request); } else { return abort(403); } } }