laravel 5.1 check if a session is expired

I'm working on a laravel 5.1 application and I want to check if a user session has expired after each request, in order to redirect the user to the login page. in order to do so I have created a middleware that runs on every request, the handle function looks like this

public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
     if(session_status() === PHP_SESSION_NONE)
     {
          return redirect()->guest('login');
     }
     return $next($request);
}

this does not seem to work correctly, because when I type 'localhost:8000' in google chrome it says 'localhost redirected you too many times', I guess it is because the session have not been started since the user is not logged in, so... is there any better way to do this checking?

via Chebli Mohamed