laravel/laravel — Issue #325: 404 does not run beofre and after filters
Author: lomboo
Created: 2012-02-09 13:10:33+00:00
State: open

As per the documentation

> The before and after filters are the two "global" filters. They are always executed on every request, regardless of the request method or URI.

This was introduced on laravel 2.x as 1.x ran those filters.

Actually, it does not run any filter whatsoever.