Redirect routes match all HTTP verbs

Route::redirect is registered as an ANY route. That means it will match all HTTP verbs, including POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE. This can be a problem if you're trying to redirect a GET request, but still want to use the other verbs for other routes.

If you want to do a redirect, but only for GET requests, you can use the Route::get method with a simple one-line closure, so you don't need the complexity of adding a controller and action.

// this would match all HTTP verbs
Route::redirect('users', route('some-other-route'));

// this only matches GET requests
Route::get('users', fn () => redirect()->route('some-other-route'));

In the past, I resisted using closure-based routes because it would break route caching. But Laravel has allowed for closure-based routes for a while now, so this is no longer a limitation.

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Joel

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