Redis "unknown command" error

Question

I use Redis as session storage in my website (Laravel 4.2). Sometimes I get following errors. I guess ">" char broke the setex commands.

production.ERROR: exception 'Predis\ServerException' with message 'ERR unknown command '>'' in 

production.ERROR: exception 'Predis\ServerException' with message 'ERR unknown command 'tml>''

production.ERROR: exception 'Predis\ServerException' with message 'ERR unknown command '</div>''

These errors occurs rarely on production server and I can't reproduce them. Do you have any idea why these errors occurs and how can I prevent them?

key: laravel:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

value: s:217:"a:4:{s:6:"_token";s:40:"xxxxxxxxxxx";s:4:"lang";s:2:"fr";s:9:"_sf2_meta";a:3:{s:1:"u";i:1461777248;s:1:"c";i:1461777248;s:1:"l";s:1:"0";}s:5:"flash";a:2:{s:3:"old";a:0:{}s:3:"new";a:0:{}}}";

exception 'Predis\ServerException' with message 'ERR unknown command 'ml>'' in vendor/predis/predis/lib/Predis/Client.php:282

Update

Code example where I am using redis.

    public function view($username = null)
    {
        $username = mb_strtolower($username);
        $redis = $this->getRedis();
        try{
            $view = $redis->get(User::getCacheKeyByUsername($username));
        }catch (\Exception $exception){
            $view = null;
        }
        if($view === null || Session::has("admin")){
            $user = User::where('username', '=', $username)->where("status", 1)->first();
            if (empty($user)) {
                return Redirect::to(Session::get("lang") . '/all');
            }
            $view = View::make("view", array("user" => $user));
            if(!Session::has("admin")){
                try{
                    $redis->setex(User::getCacheKeyByUsername($username), 3600, $view);
                }catch (\Exception $exception){
                    Log::error($exception->getMessage());
                }
            }
        }
        return $view;
    }

Answer 1

Ok, so basically what can I say from Your error log: redis doesn't like special characters like < and >, so You have to encode them.

Use htmlspecialchars to encode and htmlspecialchars_decode to decode data when retrieving.