Respond with status code 401 on authentication failure using Laravel and Passport?

Question

I\'m configuring a Laravel project to use Passport token authentication. Everything seems to be working, but when the auth:api middleware fails, it responds to the

Answer 1

You can solve it by sending this header with your request.

Accept : application/json

This will send this message with 401 status code.

{
    "message": "Unauthenticated."
}