Laravel 9 HTTP client exception handling - laravel

Question

I'm trying to catch errors that occur during HTTP client operations. If debugging is enabled APP_DEBUG=true then I get an error trace, if it is off, then it comes json response "message": "Server Error". But I need to catch exceptions, it doesn't work. Tried catch (\Illuminate\Http\Client\ConnectionException $e), but it didn't work. What am I doing wrong?
public function ExampleMethod()
{
try {
$response =
Http::withBasicAuth(env('REMOTE_LOGIN'), env('REMOTE_PASSWORD'))
->accept('application/json')
->retry(3, 2000)->timeout(12)
->withBody("dummy body content", "application/json")
->post($host . $url);
if ($response->ok()) {
//Do something
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
dd("CATCH IT");
}
}
There is an example from the documentation, the domain does not exist, and an exception handler should work somewhere, but it does not work
public function catchExceptins()
{
try {
$url = "domain-is-not-exist.com";
$response = Http::get($url);
if ($response->ok()) {
dd("200 OK");
}
//
if($response->failed()){
dd("FAILED");
}
//Below are the handlers that should work,
//but they do not respond when there is no domain
//or for example if the server response is 505
if($response->serverError()) {
dd("FAILED");
}
if($response->clientError()) {
dd("FAILED");
}
$response->throw(function($response, $e){
dd("FAILED");
})->json();
} catch (Exception $e) {
dd($e);
}
}

Answer 1

Laravel's HTTP client wrapper offers a mechanism for handling errors with a bunch of useful methods.
public function ExampleMethod()
{
try{
$response = Http::withBasicAuth(env('REMOTE_LOGIN'), env('REMOTE_PASSWORD'))
->accept('application/json')
->retry(3, 2000)->timeout(12)
->withBody("dummy body content", "application/json")
->post($host . $url);
//Check for any error 400 or 500 level status code
if($response->failed()){
// process the failure
}
//Check if response has error with 500 level status code
if($response->serverError()) {
//process on server error
}
//Check if response has error with 400 level status code
if($response->clientError()) {
//process on client error
}
// It also allows to throw exceptions on the $response
//If there's no error then the chain will continue and json() will be invoked
$response->throw(function($response, $e){
//do your thing
})->json();
}
catch(\Exception $e) {
//$e->getMessage() - will output "cURL error 6: Could not resolve host" in case of invalid domain
}
}
Laravel Docs - Http Client - Exception Handling

Answer 2

When you set APP_DEBUG=false, it just shows a generic error to the end user for security, but should give you the detailed error inside of the Laravel logs. 'All' APP_DEBUG=true does, is make the development process easier by displaying the log on the front end.
Your Laravel logs should be inside of "/storage/logs".
https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/configuration#debug-mode
https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/errors#configuration