Direct search via URL (?q=<term>) seems broken

[ProjectMoon]

Describe the bug
Searching directly via a URL (e.g. https://perplexica.example.com/?q=search term) seems broken in the latest release. It loads the page with the term as the title, but no search seems to be performed, and no output is generated.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to URL of Perplexica server with ?q= appended to the query string.

Expected behavior
Results to load as normal.

[ItzCrazyKns]

Tried reproducing but couldn't see any issues, can you provide more context

[rick-github]

Also #199

[ProjectMoon]

Bit more info based on browser console:

1. The page loads, and the websocket connection is established.
2. This JSON gets sent up: {"type":"message","message":{"chatId":"2882b84d8632c0e40a7e1083f130817728d807a4","content":"testing"},"focusMode":"webSearch","history":[["human","testing"]]} (for /?q=testing).
3. But nothing ever comes back.
4. WebSocket connection eventually dies (this may be more an issue with my reverse proxy rather than Perplexica itself).

Default logging configuration of the Docker images doesn't show any messages printed out, so I am unsure of what's going on on the server.