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Help with EventListener

I want users to be redirect to 'app_test' when they try to visit an authentication page (eg. app_login and app_register) while already authenticated.
I also want the opposite. When unauthenticated users try to visit a page that requires them to be authenticated, they should be redirected to 'app_login'.

I think an EventListener would be the best choice, but the html appears a second time in the debug toolbar. (See image)

This also only happens when i do a hard refresh.

Does anyone know whats going on, and how to fix it?

If you need more info from my project, please let me know!

TIA!

My listener:

<?php

namespace App\EventListener;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\RequestEvent;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\RouterInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\Storage\TokenStorageInterface;
use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Attribute\AsEventListener;

#AsEventListener
class AuthRedirectListener
{
    public function construct(
        private TokenStorageInterface $tokenStorage,
        private RouterInterface $router
    ) {
    }

    public function invoke(RequestEvent $event): void
    {
        if (!$event->isMainRequest()) {
            return;
        }

        $request = $event->getRequest();
        $currentRoute = $request->attributes->get('route');
        $isLoggedIn = $this->tokenStorage->getToken()?->getUser() !== null;

        // Redirect logged-in users from auth routes to apptest
        if (inarray($currentRoute, ['applogin', 'appregister']) && $isLoggedIn) {
            $event->setResponse(new RedirectResponse($this->router->generate('apptest')));
            return;
        }

        // Redirect unauthenticated users from non-auth routes to applogin
        if (!inarray($currentRoute, 'app_login', 'app_register') && !$isLoggedIn) {
            $event->setResponse(new RedirectResponse($this->router->generate('applogin')));
            return;
        }
    }
}
<?php


namespace App\EventListener;


use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\RequestEvent;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\RouterInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\Storage\TokenStorageInterface;
use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Attribute\AsEventListener;


#[AsEventListener]
class AuthRedirectListener
{
    public function construct(
        private TokenStorageInterface $tokenStorage,
        private RouterInterface $router
    ) {
    }


    public function invoke(RequestEvent $event): void
    {
        if (!$event->isMainRequest()) {
            return;
        }


        $request = $event->getRequest();
        $currentRoute = $request->attributes->get('route');
        $isLoggedIn = $this->tokenStorage->getToken()?->getUser() !== null;


        // Redirect logged-in users from auth routes to apptest
        if (inarray($currentRoute, 'app_login', 'app_register') && $isLoggedIn) {
            $event->setResponse(new RedirectResponse($this->router->generate('apptest')));
            return;
        }


        // Redirect unauthenticated users from non-auth routes to applogin
        if (!inarray($currentRoute, ['applogin', 'appregister']) && !$isLoggedIn) {
            $event->setResponse(new RedirectResponse($this->router->generate('applogin')));
            return;
        }
    }
}

The result:

https://preview.redd.it/2e7vujn946ke1.png?width=1912&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0ac0043e7731ca5b582682d4098f6773e9f6721

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