Paypal's IPN Simulator using Laravel 5 - laravel-5

Question

I'm about to go mental with this problem, I'm implementing an IPN system in my app and started doing tests now using Paypal's IPN Simulator.
When I try to send an IPN simulation, it just gives the following error:
We're sorry, but there's an HTTP error. Please try again.
First thought - Paypal's service was down - Tested wrong since if I create a blank page and send an IPN message to http://myDNS.com/blankpage.php it is able to send it.
Second thought - Problem with routes - which I think it's not the problem either:
Here's my IPN Listener at the PurchaseController.php:
public function completed()
{
//FAHIM's Paypal IPN Listener
$ipn = new PaypalIPNListener();
$ipn->use_sandbox = true;
$verified = $ipn->processIpn();
$report = $ipn->getTextReport();
Log::info("-----new payment-----");
Log::info($report);
if ($verified) {
if($_POST['address_status'] == 'confirmed'){
//sucess
}
}
}
In routes.php :
Route::post('purchase/completed/', array('as' => 'purchase.completed', 'uses' => 'PurchaseController#completed'));
Is there any known problems associated with IPN Simulator and Laravel?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Looks like I found the answer!
The problem was that a tokenMismatchException was being thrown whenever Paypal tried to send the POST information.
For people with the same problem, here's the solution:
Add an exception into the VerifyCsrfToken.php Middleware, so that the exception URI won't need the CsrfToken verification:
In my case, it looks something like this:
protected $except = [
'purchase/completed'
];
I'm working with Laravel 5, so please keep in mind that it might be slightly different in lower versions.