feat: add conformance tests for iss parameter (SEP-2468) (#220)

* feat: add conformance tests for iss parameter (SEP-2468)

Adds 5 draft conformance scenarios testing RFC 9207 issuer parameter
validation in OAuth authorization responses:

- auth/iss-supported: server advertises support and sends correct iss
- auth/iss-not-advertised: server omits iss parameter entirely
- auth/iss-supported-missing: client must reject missing iss when required
- auth/iss-wrong-issuer: client must reject mismatched iss value
- auth/iss-unexpected: client must reject iss when not advertised

Also adds auth-test-iss-validation.ts, a reference client that correctly
validates iss per RFC 9207, and negative tests confirming the standard
client fails all three rejection scenarios.

TODO: Update RFC_9207_ISS_PARAMETER spec reference once SEP-2468
(modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#2468) is merged.

* update scenarios

* fix: createAuthServer iss option type/guard and NotAdvertised scenario duplication

The doc comments said 'Default: not included' but the destructure defaulted
to true/'correct', and the `!== undefined` guard at L155 was unreachable —
so there was no way to omit the metadata field, and IssParameterNotAdvertised
silently advertised support (a duplicate of IssParameterSupported).

Kept the on-by-default behavior (mock AS models a well-behaved server) but
made issParameterSupported `boolean | null` so callers pass null to omit,
matching the codeChallengeMethodsSupported pattern. Doc comments now match.
Scenarios that need omission pass null/'omit' explicitly.

* fix: rejection scenarios silently pass when client never reaches auth endpoint

correctlyRejected = !tokenRequestMade reports SUCCESS if the client errors
out before hitting /authorize. Gate on authReached so a setup failure shows
as FAILURE with authReached:false in details.

* fix: iss-unexpected scenario contradicts SEP-2468 spec table row 3

The spec table says: supported=false/absent + iss present -> *Compare* to
the recorded issuer (not reject). The scenario sent a *correct* iss and
FAILed compliant clients for proceeding after a successful comparison.

Now sends a mismatched iss so the comparison fails and rejection is the
spec-required outcome. Reference client updated to compare-when-present
instead of throw-on-presence.

* refactor: replace harness-config checks with client-proceeded checks

iss-advertised-in-metadata / iss-sent-in-redirect (and the not-* variants)
fired in onAuthorizationRequest before the redirect happened, asserting only
that the harness was configured correctly — a client that ignores iss passes
identically. Replaced with one check per scenario keyed on tokenRequestMade,
which observes that the client actually proceeded through the iss path.

* refactor: rename check IDs to sep-2468-* and align with spec table rows

One ID per spec table row; auth/iss-supported and auth/iss-wrong-issuer
both emit sep-2468-client-compare-iss-supported (same comparison, opposite
input) per the same-slug-for-SUCCESS-and-FAIL convention.

* feat: add sep-2468.yaml requirement traceability

8 check rows (4 client table-row checks, 1 metadata-issuer, 2 AS-side,
1 no-normalization), 1 excluded (error-display is UI-facing). The
record-issuer MUST is merged into the compare-iss-supported row text
since it has no independent wire observation.

* fix: migrate iss scenarios specVersions->source (post-#265)

Replaces `specVersions: ['draft']` with `source: { introducedIn: DRAFT_PROTOCOL_VERSION }`
in the 5 iss-parameter scenarios.

This commit typechecks once the stack is rebased onto main >= #265 (the
ScenarioSource migration). Adding it now so the rebase is mechanical.

* fix: include application_type in iss-validation example DCR (post-#284)

The SEP-837 application_type check now runs in every auth scenario; the
hand-rolled DCR in auth-test-iss-validation.ts was omitting the field.

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Co-authored-by: Paul Carleton <paulc@anthropic.com>
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sep: 2468
spec_url: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/basic/authorization#authorization-response-validation
requirements:
- check: sep-2468-client-validate-metadata-issuer
text: 'After retrieving a metadata document, MCP clients MUST validate it as required by RFC8414 Section 3.3 or OpenID Connect Discovery Section 4.3: the issuer value in the document MUST be identical to the issuer identifier used to construct the well-known URL. If they differ, the client MUST NOT use the metadata.'
url: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/basic/authorization#authorization-server-metadata-discovery
- check: sep-2468-as-include-iss
text: 'MCP authorization servers SHOULD include the iss parameter in authorization responses, including error responses, as defined in RFC9207 Section 2.'
- check: sep-2468-as-advertise-iss-supported
text: 'Authorization servers that include the iss parameter MUST advertise this by setting authorization_response_iss_parameter_supported to true in their metadata (RFC9207 Section 2.3).'
- check: sep-2468-client-compare-iss-supported
text: 'On receiving the authorization response, MCP clients MUST apply the validation in RFC9207 Section 2.4 before transmitting the authorization code to any token endpoint: authorization_response_iss_parameter_supported true, iss present -> Compare to the recorded issuer using simple string comparison / Before redirecting the user-agent, the client MUST record the issuer value from the selected authorization server validated metadata document and associate it with the same per-request record used to store the PKCE code verifier.'
- check: sep-2468-client-reject-missing-iss
text: 'On receiving the authorization response, MCP clients MUST apply the validation in RFC9207 Section 2.4 before transmitting the authorization code to any token endpoint: authorization_response_iss_parameter_supported true, iss absent -> Reject the response.'
- check: sep-2468-client-compare-iss-unadvertised
text: 'On receiving the authorization response, MCP clients MUST apply the validation in RFC9207 Section 2.4 before transmitting the authorization code to any token endpoint: authorization_response_iss_parameter_supported false or absent, iss present -> Compare to the recorded issuer using simple string comparison.'
- check: sep-2468-client-proceed-no-iss
text: 'On receiving the authorization response, MCP clients MUST apply the validation in RFC9207 Section 2.4 before transmitting the authorization code to any token endpoint: authorization_response_iss_parameter_supported false or absent, iss absent -> Proceed.'
- check: sep-2468-client-no-normalization
text: 'After decoding the iss value from the application/x-www-form-urlencoded response per RFC 9207 Section 2.4, clients MUST NOT apply scheme or host case folding, default-port elision, trailing-slash, or percent-encoding normalization (RFC 3986 Sections 6.2.2-6.2.3) before comparison.'
- text: 'This validation applies equally to error responses - on mismatch the client MUST NOT act on or display error, error_description, or error_uri.'
excluded: 'display is UI-facing; act-on has no protocol-observable signal beyond the existing reject-on-mismatch checks'