Unable to redirect users to other pages

[LofiCoochie]

I am trying to implement simple authentication and session management in golang echo along with templ for frontend.
I am stuck at redirecting user based on their auth token validity and upon login.
First of all I want user to be redirected to /chat page when the login is successfully.
Login functionality is as follows:-

• user goes to /login route and logins with their credentials
• /login route makes a request to /auth/login route on the client and sends the user login info to that route, that routes firstly fetches - the user data based on username provided by the user from the server and then compares the password hash.
• If the password matches then the auth token is updated on the server database and also made a cookie on the client side

whenever a successful login happens, that is when the cookie is successfully saved set on the client side, then I want the user that is currently on the login route to be redirected to /chat route, but I am having trouble with that, I have used the following code

return c.Redirect(http.StatusSeeOther,"/chat")

on adding a few debugging statements and some testing middleware, I can see that the request for redirecting the user to /chat route is being sent and the /chat route frontend is also received in the network tab of chrome developer tools but the URL and user stays on the same /login page.

My other problem is pretty much the same but with implementing a custom middleware for protecting certain routes depending upon auth token validity. If the request to that route contains the auth token, and then the auth token is associated with a user in the server database then the user is allowed to go to that route, but if not the user is redirected to /login page.
In middleware I also don't know how to implement proper redirecting.

I don't know what kind of issue is this and I can't seem to be able tor resolve this from past 2 days.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!