diff --git a/apps/mobile/android/app/src/main/java/cloud/molberg/hermesmobile/connection/GatewayHttpProbe.kt b/apps/mobile/android/app/src/main/java/cloud/molberg/hermesmobile/connection/GatewayHttpProbe.kt
index 1679b3d..1ccee30 100644
--- a/apps/mobile/android/app/src/main/java/cloud/molberg/hermesmobile/connection/GatewayHttpProbe.kt
+++ b/apps/mobile/android/app/src/main/java/cloud/molberg/hermesmobile/connection/GatewayHttpProbe.kt
@@ -29,7 +29,12 @@ class GatewayHttpProbe(
         bearerToken: String,
         sessionCookie: String
     ): GatewayProbeResult {
-        val health = getJson("$baseUrl/health")
+        // Hermes dashboard auth gates every protected route, including /health.
+        // A successful password login therefore must send its session cookie to
+        // the health probe as well as /v1/models; otherwise the 302-to-login
+        // response is incorrectly presented as a generic offline failure.
+        val healthCookie = if (authMode == ConnectionAuthMode.PasswordLogin) sessionCookie else ""
+        val health = getJson("$baseUrl/health", sessionCookie = healthCookie)
         if (health != HttpProbeResult.Success) return health.toGatewayResult("Health probe")
         if (authMode == ConnectionAuthMode.None) {
             return GatewayProbeResult.Healthy("Gateway health check passed.")
diff --git a/apps/mobile/android/app/src/test/java/cloud/molberg/hermesmobile/connection/GatewayHttpProbeTest.kt b/apps/mobile/android/app/src/test/java/cloud/molberg/hermesmobile/connection/GatewayHttpProbeTest.kt
index 809b2d7..89393dc 100644
--- a/apps/mobile/android/app/src/test/java/cloud/molberg/hermesmobile/connection/GatewayHttpProbeTest.kt
+++ b/apps/mobile/android/app/src/test/java/cloud/molberg/hermesmobile/connection/GatewayHttpProbeTest.kt
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class GatewayHttpProbeTest {
         assertTrue(result is GatewayProbeResult.Healthy)
         assertEquals(
             listOf(
-                Triple("/health", null, null),
+                Triple("/health", null, SESSION_COOKIE),
                 Triple("/v1/models", null, SESSION_COOKIE)
             ),
             requests