Can't create cookies/sessions in Laravel 4.2

Question

Out of nowhere, my Laravel (4.2) app stopped creating cookies (therefore, it stopped to link sessions with those cookies). I'm running this test that I saw in another post:

// routes.php

Route::get('cookieset', function(){
    $cookie = Cookie::make('foo', 'bar', 60);
    return Redirect::to('cookieget')->withCookie($cookie);
});

Route::get('cookieget', function(){
    dd(Cookie::get('foo'));
});

So if I open /cookieset in the browser, the cookie itself gets created (It is posible to dd($cookie) before the Reditect::to() . I get this result:

 object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie)#165 (7) {
     ["name":protected]=> string(3) "foo"
     ["value":protected]=> string(3) "bar"
     ["domain":protected]=> NULL
     ["expire":protected]=> int(1409694104)
     ["path":protected]=> string(1) "/"
     ["secure":protected]=> bool(false)
     ["httpOnly":protected]=> bool(true)
 }

However, when redirected to /cookieget , I got a NULL result.

The browser (Google Chrome) dosen't have any "foo" cookies.

I have tried this same code in other Laravel projects and works fine. I don't remember changing anything that could break the framework. I also updated the framework (to 4.2.8) and I get the same result.

I appreciate your help.

Answer 1

SOLVED: Apparently, my routes.php file was the issue. It might had some "strange" white character somewhere, so the cookies (therefore the session) never got created. I just created a new routes.php file and everything works fine now.