## Summary
Add DNS rebinding protection that is automatically enabled when requests
arrive via localhost (127.0.0.1, [::1]). This protects against malicious
websites using DNS rebinding to interact with local MCP servers.
(note: this was a claude assisted PR, mostly wanted to see how difficult
passing this test would be for this SDK)
## Design Goal: Secure by Default
The primary goal is to make it difficult to run a localhost server
without these protections by mistake. There are other approaches that
could provide secure defaults (e.g., a helper for `ListenAndServe` that
does the localhost check), but using `http.LocalAddrContextKey` for
runtime detection seemed like the most backwards compatible approach and
least likely to be disabled by accident.
With this implementation:
- **No code changes required** - existing servers get protection
automatically
- **No opt-in needed** - protection activates based on the connection's
local address
- **Explicit opt-out** - users must deliberately set
`DisableLocalhostProtection: true`
## Changes
- Add `DisableLocalhostProtection` option to `StreamableHTTPOptions`
- Add `isLocalhostAddr` and `isLocalhostHost` helper functions
- Validate Host header at start of `ServeHTTP`, rejecting non-localhost
Host headers with 403 Forbidden
## How it works
The protection uses `http.LocalAddrContextKey` to detect the
connection's local address at runtime. When a request arrives via
localhost (127.0.0.1 or [::1]), the handler validates that the Host
header also matches a localhost value. If not, the request is rejected
with 403 Forbidden.
This approach means:
- Protection is enabled for requests arriving via localhost, regardless
of whether the server listens on `127.0.0.1` or `0.0.0.0`
- Requests arriving via non-localhost IPs (e.g., external network
requests) are **not** affected
### Edge case: Reverse proxies
If a reverse proxy (e.g., Envoy, nginx) runs on the same host and
forwards requests to the MCP server via localhost while preserving the
original Host header, those requests would be rejected. In this case,
users should either:
1. Set `DisableLocalhostProtection: true`
2. Configure the proxy to rewrite the Host header to localhost
## Testing
- Added unit tests for `isLocalhostAddr` and `isLocalhostHost` helper
functions
- Added integration tests for the full protection flow
- Verified against the MCP conformance test suite:
- `localhost-host-rebinding-rejected`: PASS
- `localhost-host-valid-accepted`: PASS
## Related
- Spec:
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/basic/security_best_practices#local-mcp-server-compromise
- TypeScript SDK implementation: `localhostHostValidation()` middleware
- Conformance test: `dns-rebinding-protection` scenario
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Co-authored-by: Maciek Kisiel <mkisiel@google.com>
405 Method Not Allowed responses MUST include an Allow header listing
supported methods, per RFC 9110 Section 15.5.6. This fixes issues with
strict HTTP gateways (like Apigee) that treat 405 responses without an
Allow header as malformed, returning 502 Bad Gateway errors.
## Changes
- **SSEHandler**: Add `Allow: GET, POST` header for unsupported methods
- **StreamableHTTPHandler**: Add Allow header for GET-without-session case:
- Stateless mode: `Allow: POST, DELETE` (GET is never valid)
- Stateful mode: `Allow: GET, POST, DELETE` (GET is valid once you have
a session)
- Add tests to verify Allow header presence in all 405 responses
## RFC 9110 Reference
[Section 15.5.6 (405 Method Not
Allowed)](https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#status.405):
> The origin server MUST generate an Allow header field in a 405
response containing a list of the target resource's currently supported
methods.
## Testing
All existing tests pass, plus new tests added:
- `TestSSE405AllowHeader` - verifies SSE handler compliance
- `TestStreamable405AllowHeader` - verifies Streamable handler
compliance in both stateful and stateless modes
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Co-authored-by: omgitsads <4619+omgitsads@users.noreply.github.com>
Change CloseSSEStream from func(time.Duration) to
func(CloseSSEStreamArgs) for forward compatibility, allowing new fields
to be added without breaking existing callers.
The prime and close SSE events (SEP-1699) were added in protocol version
2025-11-25. Only send these events when the client negotiates that
version or later.
- In servePOST, extract protocol version from InitializeParams for
initialize requests, otherwise use the Mcp-Protocol-Version header
- In serveGET/acquireStream, read protocol version from header
- Only set closeLocked callback when prime/close is supported
- Add unexported protocolVersion field to ClientSessionOptions for
testing
Fixes#686
Add a UserID field to auth.TokenInfo that TokenVerifiers can populate
from JWT "sub" claims or token introspection. The streamable HTTP
transport uses this to bind sessions to users, rejecting requests where
the user ID doesn't match the session's original user.
Fixes#589
After walking through our handling of streamable client context
cancellation (due to encountering a shutdown deadlock), I think I've
settled on a more coherent strategy for handling call cancellation:
- In our call handler, retire the request if the call exits due to
cancellation: the caller will never see the actual result anyway.
- In connectSSE, use the actual request context (the same context used
in Write) for the client request, so that it terminates when the context
is cancelled. Thread through the initialization context for the
standalone SSE request.
Also, a couple minor improvements:
- Use a detached context for the background context of the client
connection. We want to preserve context values (see #513), but it is not
right to cancel the connection after Connect has already returned, if
the context times out.
- Don't use Last-Event-ID != "" as the signal for whether the connectSSE
call is initial: if the standalone SSE stream disconnects without an
event ID, we'll still reconnect it, and don't want to do so without a
delay.
+ tests, updating the streamable client connection test harness to
accomodate the new aspects being exercised.
Fixes#662
This CL implements support for SEP-1699, adding the following new API:
- Event.Retry corresponds to the 'retry' field of a server sent event.
This is used to signal client retry behavior.
- RequestExtra.CloseStream is set by the streamable transport to allow
closing a stream.
The streamable server transport is updated to set CloseStream for calls,
allowing server operations or middleware to close the underlying stream.
If the configured 'reconnectAfter' delay is set, a 'retry' message is
sent prior to terminating the stream.
The streamable client transport is updated to read the configured delay.
Fixes#630
Expose the jsonrpc.Error type to allow access to underlying JSON-RPC
error codes. Also, expose common JSON-RPC error codes in the jsonrpc
package, and MCP error codes in the mcp package.
Also, implement support for the MCP URL elicitation required error
(-32042), enabling servers to request out-of-band user authorization and
clients to automatically handle these requests with retry logic.
Server-side:
- Add CodeURLElicitationRequired constant
- Add URLElicitationRequiredError() constructor.
Client-side:
- Add urlElicitationMiddleware to intercept URLElicitationRequired
errors and retry calls.
- Update callElicitationCompleteHandler to signal waiting operations.
- Fix capability advertisement to support both form and URL modes.
Fixes#452Fixes#623
Fixes#636
## Problem
The StreamableClientTransport tries to JSON-decode ALL SSE events,
including ping events sent by servers for keep-alive purposes. This
causes errors like 'invalid character 'p' looking for beginning of
value' when encountering non-JSON event data.
## Solution
Modified processStream to check evt.Name and skip events that are not
'message' events (or unnamed events, which default to 'message' per SSE
spec).
## Changes
- Added event name check in processStream before attempting JSON decode
- Added test case for ping event filtering
- Added test for scanning multiple events including ping events
## Testing
- All existing tests pass
- New tests verify ping events are properly filtered
- Tested with DeepWiki MCP server which sends ping events
If a stateful streamable session fails to initialize, it is unusable.
Avoid allocating resources by closing the session immediately.
Also:
- Fix a bug where InitializeParams is not guarded with its mutex.
- Fix a resource leak where sessions are persisted with session id "",
even though they are unaddressable.
- Add a relevant benchmark, and update tests.
Fixes#578
Add a timeout option for the streamable HTTP handler that automatically
cleans up idle sessions.
Also, fix a bug in the streamable client, where we hang on a request
even though the client can never get a response (because the HTTP
request terminated without a response or Last-Event-Id).
Fixes#499
Address longstanding TODOs to clean up stream metadata after streams are
complete:
- Interpret a missing stream as a complete stream.
- Remove the request->stream mapping when the request completes. Any
writes after that point will fail as there can be no recipient.
Tested using examples/client/loadtest, and updating
TestStreamableTransports to check in-band and out-of-band behavior.
This CL implements two changes that must be logically connected.
The first is to provide a mechanism for disabling stream replay.
Previously, our documentation stated that if
StreamableServerTransport.EventStore was nil, a default in-memory event
store would be used. In that case, there would be no way to completely
disable stream replay, and as described in #576, there are many cases
where replay is undesirable.
But of course changing the behavior of the transport zero value
implicitly affects its default behavior, and so this CL also implements
the proposal #580: stream replay is disabled by default.
Implementing this change required a significant refactoring, as
previously we were relying on the event store for serialized message
delivery from the JSON-RPC layer to the MCP layer: the connection would
write to the event store, and independently the stream (be it an
incoming POST or replay GET) would iterate and serve messages in the
stream.
In order to achieve the goals of this CL, it was necessary to decouple
storage from delivery. The 'stream' abstraction now tracks a delivery
callback that writes straight to the HTTP response. It would have been
convenient to store the ongoing http.ResponseWriter directly in the
stream (this is how typescript does it), but due to the design of our
EventStore API, only the HTTP handler knows the next event index, so a
'deliver' abstraction was an unfortunate requirement (suggestions for
how to further simplify this are welcome).
More simplification is possible: in particular, as a result of this
refactoring it should be entirely possible to clean up streams once
we've received all responses. Any replay would only need access to the
EventStore, if at all. This is left to a follow-up CL, to limit this
already significant change.
Furthermore, a nice consequence of this refactoring is that, when not
using event storage, servers can get synchronous feedback that message
delivery failed, which should avoid unnecessary work. We can
additionally cancel ongoing requests on early client termination, but
that is also left to a follow-up CL.
Throughout, the terminology 'standalone SSE stream' replaced 'hanging
GET' when referring to the non-replay GET request issued by the client.
This is consistent with other SDKs.
Fixes#576
Updates #580
This PR fixes goroutine leaks in all unit tests.
To find the leaks I integrated https://github.com/uber-go/goleak and I
suggest to keep using it to catch any future regressions.
I used the folowing script to more easily find individual tests which
were leaking goroutines:
```
for t in $(go test -run=Nothing -list=. ./mcp | grep -v ok); do go test ./mcp -run="$t" > /dev/null && echo -n . || echo -e "\nDetected leak: $t"; done
```
PR 501 added logging to the streamable server, but didn't pass a non-nil
logger to the streamable transport (an oversight). However, tests still
passed due to net/http's panic recovery.
Update test servers to enforce that handlers do not panic, and fix the
panic by:
1. Passing along the configured logger to the session transport.
2. Using ensureLogger in Connect, since we technically allow
StreamableServerTransports to be constructed by the user.
Fixes#556
## Problem
Context propagation was broken in `StreamableClientTransport` because:
1. `Connect()` used `context.Background()` instead of the parent context
2. `Close()` created a race condition where DELETE requests were
cancelled before completion
## Solution
- Use parent context when creating the connection context in `Connect()`
- Reorder `Close()` operations to perform cleanup DELETE before
cancelling context
## Impact
- Request-scoped values (auth tokens, trace IDs) now propagate correctly
to background HTTP operations
- Eliminates race condition in cleanup operations
- Maintains proper Go context semantics
Fixes#513
Provide a way for middleware to get the error from a tool call,
demonstrating that we can add this functionality without making a
breaking change.
Leave getError unexported for now; we can export it (and setError) at
any time.
For #64.
Our validation logic was avoiding double-unmarshalling as much as
possible, by parsing before validation and validating the Go type.
This only works if the Go type has the same structure as its JSON
representation, which may not be the case in the presence of types with
custom MarshalJSON or UnmarshalJSON methods (such as time.Time).
But even if the Go type doesn't use any custom marshalling, validation
is broken, because we can't differentiate zero values from missing
values.
Bite the bullet and use double-unmarshalling for both input and output
schemas. Coincidentally, this fixes three bugs:
- We were accepting case-insensitive JSON keys, since we parsed first,
even though they should have been rejected. A number of tests were
wrong.
- Defaults were overriding present-yet-zero values, as noted in an
incorrect test case.
- When "arguments" was missing, validation wasn't performed, no defaults
were applied, and unmarshalling failed even if all properties were
optional.
First unmarshalling to map[string]any allows us to fix all these bugs.
Unfortunately, it means a 3x increase in the number of reflection
operations (we need to unmarshal, apply defaults and validate,
re-marshal with the defaults, and then unmarshal into the Go type).
However, this is not likely to be a significant overhead, and we can
always optimize in the future.
Update github.com/google/jsonschema-go to pick up necessary improvements
supporting this change.
Additionally, fix the error codes for invalid tool parameters, to be
consistent with other SDKs (Invalid Params: -32602).
Fixes#447Fixes#449
Updates #450
Previously, the error message received from ClientSession.Wait would
only report the closeErr, which would often be nil even if the client
transport was broken. Wait should return the reason the session
terminated, if abnormal.
I'm not sure of the exact semantics of this, but surely returning nil is
less useful than returning a meaningful non-nil error. We can refine our
handling of errors once we have more feedback.
Also add a test for client termination on HTTP server shutdown,
described in #265. This should work as long as (1) the session is
stateful (with a hanging GET), or (2) the session is stateless but the
client has a keepalive ping.
Also: don't send DELETE if the session was terminated with 404; +test.
Fixes#265
In #272, we made transports open structs and deprecated their
constructors. However, we left the constructors in place to allow go:fix
directives to facilitate migration.
Now let's remove the constructors before cutting the release.
Fixes#305
Use a fake streamable server to facilitate testing client behavior.
For this commit, just update the existing test (moved to a new file for
isolation). Subsequent CLs will add more tests.
Improve one client error message that occurred while debuging tests.
For #393
The condition sessionID == "" was not quite right for disallowing GET
requests. Since we decided to differentiate "stateless" vs "sessionless"
servers, we need to disallow GET requests for both.
For #393
Exporting StreamableHTTPOptions.JSONResponse is helpful for some users behind proxies that don't work well with text/event-stream.
For #211
Co-authored-by: ccpro10 <co1797249167@gmail.com>
An onClose function is passed to the ServerSession and ClientSession to
help cleanup resources from the caller.
The onClose function will be executed as part of the ServerSession and
ClientSession closure.
Fixes#258
The spec makes it clear that input schemas must have type "object".
Enforce that.
Allow "any" as an input argument type by special-casing it.
Fixes#283.
Replace all occurrences of ServerRequest[*CallToolParams] and other
concrete instantiations with CallToolRequest and the like.
Make the XXXRequest types aliases, to preserve the convenience of
generics for the internal machinery (see shared.go, for example.)
I will expand the aliases in a followup PR.
Change the design of tool handlers by removing genericity from the common path.
- `ToolHandler` gets the args as a `json.RawMessage`. Using Server.AddTool does no unmarshaling or schema validation.
- `ToolHandlerFor`, installed with `AddTool`, are the only generic pieces.
TODO:
uncomment and fix some tests
If there is a TokenInfo in the request context of a
StreamableServerTransport, then propagate it through to the
ServerRequest that is passed to server methods like callTool.
Fixes#317.
Several improvements for the stateless streamable mode, plus support for
a 'distributed' (or rather, distributable) version of the stateless
server.
- Add a 'Stateless' option to StreamableHTTPOptions and
StreamableServerTransport, which controls stateless behavior.
GetSessionID may still return a non-empty session ID.
- Audit validation of stateless mode to allow requests with a session
id. Propagate this session ID to the temporary connection.
- Peek at requests to allow 'initialize' requests to go through to the
session, so that version negotiation can occur (FIXME: add tests).
Fixes#284
For #148
