The payload is invalid

Question

I am new to Laravel. When I am in debug mode I get the following errors every time every page loads:

The payload is invalid

After pressing two times on Continue I get the error

The MAC is invalid

The error messages are located inside the encrypter.php file. After pressing "Continue" again, I can proceed with debugging with breakpoints and so on, and everything works fine. The $payload-variable is null.

The project is still very basic. Only some things like CRUD like explained on tutorials.

What is payload? And am I missing some kind of configuration? How to get rid of these error messages?

This seems like a problem with your IDE or browser. Which ones are you using? Can you post a screenshot of the error? — Jerodev, Oct 27 '17 at 11:30
I did not run key:generate, but the APP_KEY constant is present in my.env file. Should I run it? — leonvr, Oct 27 '17 at 11:48
The app_key has to be a specific length etc. Did you create your own? — online Thomas, Oct 27 '17 at 11:49
I did not create my own. I expect it has been there since I created the project — leonvr, Oct 27 '17 at 11:53
Just try to run `php artisan key:generate` and see if that solves it. — jbehrens94, Oct 30 '17 at 14:15
I did run php artisan key:generate. I got a new key, but the problem is the same. — leonvr, Oct 30 '17 at 14:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '17 at 14:20

The answer is found in this post:

Can't using Visual Code to debug in Laravel project

I also:

closed VS Code Editor
cleared all history in my browser, including cookies and cache
ran the commands as mentioned in the post inside the windows cmd window (so not the integrated terminal inside VS Code Editor)

The payload is invalid

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