diff --git a/backend/app/main.py b/backend/app/main.py
index d73542f..cd4c29f 100644
--- a/backend/app/main.py
+++ b/backend/app/main.py
@@ -47,8 +47,25 @@ async def event_stream(request: ChatRequest) -> AsyncGenerator[str, None]:
         "Accept": "text/event-stream",
     }
 
-    async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=None, follow_redirects=True) as client:
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=None, follow_redirects=False) as client:
         async with client.stream("POST", OLLAMA_API_URL, json=payload, headers=headers) as response:
+            if response.status_code in (301, 302, 307, 308) and response.headers.get("location"):
+                location = response.headers["location"]
+                await response.aclose()
+                logger.debug("Following Ollama redirect to %s", location)
+                async with client.stream("POST", location, json=payload, headers=headers, follow_redirects=False) as response:
+                    if response.status_code >= 400:
+                        text = await response.aread()
+                        raise HTTPException(status_code=502, detail=f"Ollama Cloud error: {text.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')}" )
+
+                    async for chunk in response.aiter_text():
+                        if not chunk:
+                            continue
+                        for line in chunk.splitlines():
+                            if line.strip():
+                                yield f"data: {line}\n\n"
+                return
+
             if response.status_code >= 400:
                 text = await response.aread()
                 raise HTTPException(status_code=502, detail=f"Ollama Cloud error: {text.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')}" )
diff --git a/frontend/src/App.tsx b/frontend/src/App.tsx
index 38abf90..4fb9fda 100644
--- a/frontend/src/App.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/App.tsx
@@ -263,6 +263,13 @@ function App() {
     [token],
   )
 
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (token && isJwtExpired(token)) {
+      clearLocalToken()
+      setToken(null)
+    }
+  }, [token])
+
   async function login() {
     clearLocalToken()
     try {
@@ -298,6 +305,12 @@ function App() {
 
   async function submitMessage() {
     if (!input.trim() || !token) return
+    if (isJwtExpired(token)) {
+      clearLocalToken()
+      setToken(null)
+      setError('Session expired, please log in again.')
+      return
+    }
 
     const userMessage: Message = { role: 'user', content: input.trim() }
     const messageBatch = [...messages, userMessage]