title: Get a cookie in Laravel 5 middleware
body: <p>I'm trying to retrieve a cookie from a middleware in Laravel 5.3 but it seems like $request->cookie('language') is empty. I'm guessing that it is only set after the middleware runs.</p>
  
  <p>I read somewhere that I should use \Cookie::queued('language'), but it's still empty.</p>
  
  <p>Is my only option using the $_COOKIE variable?</p>