Installation

Require the package. The service provider and the SafeFetch facade alias are auto-discovered, and nothing else is needed — no database, no migrations:

composer require roundly-consulting/safe-fetch-for-laravel

The defaults are strict: https only, any port, the blocked-network table, the app’s own host names refused and redirects off. Send requests with the curl extension installed — DNS pinning depends on it (see Requirements).

Validate a URL, then fetch it

Validate the URL a user hands in, then fetch it — capped, with errors that say whether a retry can help:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
use RoundlyConsulting\SafeFetch\Exceptions\SafeFetchException;
use RoundlyConsulting\SafeFetch\Facades\SafeFetch;
use RoundlyConsulting\SafeFetch\Rules\SafeUrl;

$request->validate(['feed' => ['required', 'string', 'max:2048', new SafeUrl]]);

try {
    $feed = SafeFetch::fetch($request->input('feed'), maxBytes: 2_000_000);
    // $feed->body, $feed->contentType, $feed->url
} catch (SafeFetchException $e) {
    $e->retryable(); // a 5xx or a timeout can heal; a blocked address never does
}

Or guard any Laravel HTTP call:

Http::safe()->withToken($token)->post($hookUrl, $payload);

Publish the config and translations (optional)

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=safe-fetch-config        # config/safe-fetch.php
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=safe-fetch-translations  # lang/vendor/safe-fetch

Local development

To reach services on your own machine while developing, allow http and the loopback address you need — never in production:

// config/safe-fetch.php
'allow_http' => env('SAFE_FETCH_ALLOW_HTTP', false),   // SAFE_FETCH_ALLOW_HTTP=on in .env
'ranges' => ['allowed' => ['127.0.0.1/32'], 'blocked' => []],

Check the environment

php artisan safe-fetch:check

It prints whether DNS pinning is available (and the libcurl version), whether the pre-send address check is on, whether international host names work, the Guzzle version and whether the configuration is valid, and it warns about settings that weaken the guard. It exits 1 on an error-level finding — no curl, an invalid configuration. See Artisan commands.