Laravel rate limiter does not limit
While trying out Laravel 8 and the new rate limiter, I could not get it to work on my developer machine.
It turns out that the rate limiting mechanism is based on the cache (duh!), and I usually have that cache turned of during development. So, check your .env
file!
// No rate limiting for you!
CACHE_DRIVER=sync
// This will work
CACHE_DRIVER=file