Understanding redirect after refresh without token and how to prevent it?

[gustavonikov]

Guys, this is the context for my doubt: I removed authentication by token and I'm trying to do it via httpOnly cookie via SSR.
When a user tries to login, I get the token directly from api response and set the token for Authorization header on axios, making the user authenticated to make requests after.

import { Context } from '@nuxt/types'

export default function ({ $axios, store }: Context) {
  $axios.onResponse((response) => {
    if (response.config.url === '/auth/signin') {
      const token = response.data.token
      $axios.setToken(token, 'Bearer')
      store.commit('app/SET_AUTH_TOKEN', token)
    }

    return response
  })
}

After the login, my plan was when I refresh the page and probably lose the token, get the token from the httponly cookie that I set from the backend, passing it into the headers again.

import { Context } from '@nuxt/types'
import { NuxtCookies } from 'cookie-universal-nuxt'

interface RoutesContext extends Context {
  $cookies: NuxtCookies
}

export default (ctx: RoutesContext) => {
  // handle auth token
  const cookieToken = ctx.$cookies.get('test')

  if (cookieToken && !ctx.store.app.token) {
    const tokenData = Buffer.from(cookieToken, 'base64').toString('ascii')
    const token = JSON.parse(tokenData).message

    ctx.$axios.setToken(token, 'Bearer')
  }
}

But, if I refresh the page automatically redirects me to '/' (attachment). I guess that this redirect is made in the SSR.
So finally finishing the context, my problem is: how can I intercept this redirect before it happens?
To get the cookie and set to headers and make all that I need to stay the user logged.

I did take a look at Nuxt docs and I see two possible ways:
Make a server middleware: https://nuxtjs.org/docs/configuration-glossary/configuration-servermiddleware/
Use nuxtServerInit: https://nuxtjs.org/docs/directory-structure/store#the-nuxtserverinit-action

But, I don't know if they are correct ways to do it. Someone had this problem or know how to solve it?
Or even can confirm if one of the two options that I writed above can work?