Laravel Redirect does not work in Event handler / listener - laravel

Question

I have a Auth.Attempt event handler class, which I detect user's login attempts to decide to lock user's account.
However, when I tried to redirect user to login page with a flash message, I found the redirection does not work, it's still carry on next step.
I want to interrupt the process in the event and give my custom warning message. Can anyone help me out? Thanks a lot.
My event handler:
namespace MyApp\Handlers\Security;
use DB;
use Session;
use Redirect;
class LoginHandler
{
/**
* Maximum attempts
* If user tries to login but failed more than this number, User account will be locked
*
* #var integer
*/
private $max_attemtps;
/**
* Maximum attempts per IP
* If an IP / Device tries to login but failed more than this number, the IP will be blocked
*
* #var integer
*/
private $ip_max_attempts;
public function __construct()
{
$this->max_attempts = 10;
$this->ip_max_attempts = 5;
}
public function onLoginAttempt($data)
{
//detection process.......
// if login attempts more than max attempts
return Redirect::to('/')->with('message', 'Your account has been locked.');
}
}
Now the way I am doing this is like below:
Session::flash('message', 'Your account has been locked.');
header('Location: '.URL::to('/'));
It works but I am not sure if it's perfect way to do it.

Answer 1

You can still send an HttpException who will work. But obviously instructions after the event handler will not be interpreted
abort(redirect('/'));

Answer 2

Not getting to much into this very interesting discussion:
Should exceptions be used for flow control
You can try setting up your own exception handler and redirect from there on to the login page.
class FancyException extends Exception {}
App::error(function(FancyException $e, $code, $fromConsole)
{
$msg = $e->getMessage();
Log::error($msg);
if ( $fromConsole )
{
return 'Error '.$code.': '.$msg."\n";
}
if (Config::get('app.debug') == false) {
return Redirect::route('your.login.route');
}
else
{
//some debug stuff here
}
});
And in your function:
public function onLoginAttempt($data)
{
//detection process.......
// if login attempts more than max attempts
throw new FancyException("some msg here");
}