🔗 Check if a signed URL is valid in Laravel tests

There may be times when you want to check whether a URL in your Laravel application is a valid signed URL. Most of the time, this is something you’d need to do in your application code where you can reach for the \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ValidateSignature middleware class, or the $request->hasValidSignature() method on the Illuminate\Http\Request class.

However, in the past, I’ve needed to write some tests to ensure that a signed URL is correctly generated and stored in the database. Admittedly, it’s not something I need to do often, but I thought it might be useful to share how to do this in case you find yourself in a similar situation.

In this Quickfire article, I’m going to show you how to check whether a signed URL is valid in your tests.

If you’re not familiar with signed URLs, you might be interested in my existing article which explains what they are: How to Assert Redirects to Signed URLs in Laravel Tests