Regression

the work I did on #20 to solve #19 seems to be broken by one of the recent changes. Current response on trying this path is
```
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Sep/2023 17:10:49] "POST /chat HTTP/1.1" 200 -
HTTP code 502 from API (<html>
<head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>502 Bad Gateway</h1></center>
<hr><center>cloudflare</center>
</body>
</html>
)
```