// Copyright 2025 The Go MCP SDK Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package mcp import ( "bytes" "context" "errors" "fmt" "io" "math" "math/rand/v2" "net/http" "strconv" "strings" "sync" "sync/atomic" "time" "github.com/modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk/internal/jsonrpc2" "github.com/modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk/jsonrpc" ) const ( protocolVersionHeader = "Mcp-Protocol-Version" sessionIDHeader = "Mcp-Session-Id" ) // A StreamableHTTPHandler is an http.Handler that serves streamable MCP // sessions, as defined by the [MCP spec]. // // [MCP spec]: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/2025/03/26/streamable-http-transport.html type StreamableHTTPHandler struct { getServer func(*http.Request) *Server sessionsMu sync.Mutex sessions map[string]*StreamableServerTransport // keyed by IDs (from Mcp-Session-Id header) } // StreamableHTTPOptions is a placeholder options struct for future // configuration of the StreamableHTTP handler. type StreamableHTTPOptions struct { // TODO: support configurable session ID generation (?) // TODO: support session retention (?) } // NewStreamableHTTPHandler returns a new [StreamableHTTPHandler]. // // The getServer function is used to create or look up servers for new // sessions. It is OK for getServer to return the same server multiple times. // If getServer returns nil, a 400 Bad Request will be served. func NewStreamableHTTPHandler(getServer func(*http.Request) *Server, opts *StreamableHTTPOptions) *StreamableHTTPHandler { return &StreamableHTTPHandler{ getServer: getServer, sessions: make(map[string]*StreamableServerTransport), } } // closeAll closes all ongoing sessions. // // TODO(rfindley): investigate the best API for callers to configure their // session lifecycle. (?) // // Should we allow passing in a session store? That would allow the handler to // be stateless. func (h *StreamableHTTPHandler) closeAll() { h.sessionsMu.Lock() defer h.sessionsMu.Unlock() for _, s := range h.sessions { s.Close() } h.sessions = nil } func (h *StreamableHTTPHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) { // Allow multiple 'Accept' headers. // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Accept#syntax accept := strings.Split(strings.Join(req.Header.Values("Accept"), ","), ",") var jsonOK, streamOK bool for _, c := range accept { switch strings.TrimSpace(c) { case "application/json": jsonOK = true case "text/event-stream": streamOK = true } } if req.Method == http.MethodGet { if !streamOK { http.Error(w, "Accept must contain 'text/event-stream' for GET requests", http.StatusBadRequest) return } } else if !jsonOK || !streamOK { http.Error(w, "Accept must contain both 'application/json' and 'text/event-stream'", http.StatusBadRequest) return } var session *StreamableServerTransport if id := req.Header.Get(sessionIDHeader); id != "" { h.sessionsMu.Lock() session, _ = h.sessions[id] h.sessionsMu.Unlock() if session == nil { http.Error(w, "session not found", http.StatusNotFound) return } } // TODO(rfindley): simplify the locking so that each request has only one // critical section. if req.Method == http.MethodDelete { if session == nil { // => Mcp-Session-Id was not set; else we'd have returned NotFound above. http.Error(w, "DELETE requires an Mcp-Session-Id header", http.StatusBadRequest) return } h.sessionsMu.Lock() delete(h.sessions, session.sessionID) h.sessionsMu.Unlock() session.Close() w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent) return } switch req.Method { case http.MethodPost, http.MethodGet: default: w.Header().Set("Allow", "GET, POST") http.Error(w, "unsupported method", http.StatusMethodNotAllowed) return } if session == nil { s := NewStreamableServerTransport(randText(), nil) server := h.getServer(req) if server == nil { // The getServer argument to NewStreamableHTTPHandler returned nil. http.Error(w, "no server available", http.StatusBadRequest) return } // Pass req.Context() here, to allow middleware to add context values. // The context is detached in the jsonrpc2 library when handling the // long-running stream. if _, err := server.Connect(req.Context(), s); err != nil { http.Error(w, "failed connection", http.StatusInternalServerError) return } h.sessionsMu.Lock() h.sessions[s.sessionID] = s h.sessionsMu.Unlock() session = s } session.ServeHTTP(w, req) } type StreamableServerTransportOptions struct { // Storage for events, to enable stream resumption. // If nil, a [MemoryEventStore] with the default maximum size will be used. EventStore EventStore } // NewStreamableServerTransport returns a new [StreamableServerTransport] with // the given session ID and options. // The session ID must be globally unique, that is, different from any other // session ID anywhere, past and future. (We recommend using a crypto random number // generator to produce one, as with [crypto/rand.Text].) // // A StreamableServerTransport implements the server-side of the streamable // transport. func NewStreamableServerTransport(sessionID string, opts *StreamableServerTransportOptions) *StreamableServerTransport { if opts == nil { opts = &StreamableServerTransportOptions{} } t := &StreamableServerTransport{ sessionID: sessionID, incoming: make(chan jsonrpc.Message, 10), done: make(chan struct{}), streams: make(map[StreamID]*stream), requestStreams: make(map[jsonrpc.ID]StreamID), } t.streams[0] = newStream(0) if opts != nil { t.opts = *opts } if t.opts.EventStore == nil { t.opts.EventStore = NewMemoryEventStore(nil) } return t } func (t *StreamableServerTransport) SessionID() string { return t.sessionID } // A StreamableServerTransport implements the [Transport] interface for a // single session. type StreamableServerTransport struct { nextStreamID atomic.Int64 // incrementing next stream ID sessionID string opts StreamableServerTransportOptions incoming chan jsonrpc.Message // messages from the client to the server done chan struct{} mu sync.Mutex // Sessions are closed exactly once. isDone bool // Sessions can have multiple logical connections, corresponding to HTTP // requests. Additionally, logical sessions may be resumed by subsequent HTTP // requests, when the session is terminated unexpectedly. // // Therefore, we use a logical connection ID to key the connection state, and // perform the accounting described below when incoming HTTP requests are // handled. // streams holds the logical streams for this session, keyed by their ID. // TODO: streams are never deleted, so the memory for a connection grows without // bound. If we deleted a stream when the response is sent, we would lose the ability // to replay if there was a cut just before the response was transmitted. // Perhaps we could have a TTL for streams that starts just after the response. streams map[StreamID]*stream // requestStreams maps incoming requests to their logical stream ID. // // Lifecycle: requestStreams persists for the duration of the session. // // TODO(rfindley): clean up once requests are handled. See the TODO for streams // above. requestStreams map[jsonrpc.ID]StreamID } // A stream is a single logical stream of SSE events within a server session. // A stream begins with a client request, or with a client GET that has // no Last-Event-ID header. // A stream ends only when its session ends; we cannot determine its end otherwise, // since a client may send a GET with a Last-Event-ID that references the stream // at any time. type stream struct { // id is the logical ID for the stream, unique within a session. // ID 0 is used for messages that don't correlate with an incoming request. id StreamID // signal is a 1-buffered channel, owned by an incoming HTTP request, that signals // that there are messages available to write into the HTTP response. // In addition, the presence of a channel guarantees that at most one HTTP response // can receive messages for a logical stream. After claiming the stream, incoming // requests should read from outgoing, to ensure that no new messages are missed. // // To simplify locking, signal is an atomic. We need an atomic.Pointer, because // you can't set an atomic.Value to nil. // // Lifecycle: each channel value persists for the duration of an HTTP POST or // GET request for the given streamID. signal atomic.Pointer[chan struct{}] // The following mutable fields are protected by the mutex of the containing // StreamableServerTransport. // outgoing is the list of outgoing messages, enqueued by server methods that // write notifications and responses, and dequeued by streamResponse. outgoing [][]byte // streamRequests is the set of unanswered incoming RPCs for the stream. // // Requests persist until their response data has been added to outgoing. requests map[jsonrpc.ID]struct{} } func newStream(id StreamID) *stream { return &stream{ id: id, requests: make(map[jsonrpc.ID]struct{}), } } func signalChanPtr() *chan struct{} { c := make(chan struct{}, 1) return &c } // A StreamID identifies a stream of SSE events. It is unique within the stream's // [ServerSession]. type StreamID int64 // Connect implements the [Transport] interface. // // TODO(rfindley): Connect should return a new object. (Why?) func (s *StreamableServerTransport) Connect(context.Context) (Connection, error) { return s, nil } // We track the incoming request ID inside the handler context using // idContextValue, so that notifications and server->client calls that occur in // the course of handling incoming requests are correlated with the incoming // request that caused them, and can be dispatched as server-sent events to the // correct HTTP request. // // Currently, this is implemented in [ServerSession.handle]. This is not ideal, // because it means that a user of the MCP package couldn't implement the // streamable transport, as they'd lack this privileged access. // // If we ever wanted to expose this mechanism, we have a few options: // 1. Make ServerSession an interface, and provide an implementation of // ServerSession to handlers that closes over the incoming request ID. // 2. Expose a 'HandlerTransport' interface that allows transports to provide // a handler middleware, so that we don't hard-code this behavior in // ServerSession.handle. // 3. Add a `func ForRequest(context.Context) jsonrpc.ID` accessor that lets // any transport access the incoming request ID. // // For now, by giving only the StreamableServerTransport access to the request // ID, we avoid having to make this API decision. type idContextKey struct{} // ServeHTTP handles a single HTTP request for the session. func (t *StreamableServerTransport) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) { status := 0 message := "" switch req.Method { case http.MethodGet: status, message = t.serveGET(w, req) case http.MethodPost: status, message = t.servePOST(w, req) default: // Should not be reached, as this is checked in StreamableHTTPHandler.ServeHTTP. w.Header().Set("Allow", "GET, POST") status = http.StatusMethodNotAllowed message = "unsupported method" } if status != 0 && status != http.StatusOK { http.Error(w, message, status) } } func (t *StreamableServerTransport) serveGET(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) (int, string) { // connID 0 corresponds to the default GET request. id := StreamID(0) // By default, we haven't seen a last index. Since indices start at 0, we represent // that by -1. This is incremented just before each event is written, in streamResponse // around L407. lastIdx := -1 if len(req.Header.Values("Last-Event-ID")) > 0 { eid := req.Header.Get("Last-Event-ID") var ok bool id, lastIdx, ok = parseEventID(eid) if !ok { return http.StatusBadRequest, fmt.Sprintf("malformed Last-Event-ID %q", eid) } } t.mu.Lock() stream, ok := t.streams[id] t.mu.Unlock() if !ok { return http.StatusBadRequest, "unknown stream" } if !stream.signal.CompareAndSwap(nil, signalChanPtr()) { // The CAS returned false, meaning that the comparison failed: stream.signal is not nil. return http.StatusBadRequest, "stream ID conflicts with ongoing stream" } return t.streamResponse(stream, w, req, lastIdx) } func (t *StreamableServerTransport) servePOST(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) (int, string) { if len(req.Header.Values("Last-Event-ID")) > 0 { return http.StatusBadRequest, "can't send Last-Event-ID for POST request" } // Read incoming messages. body, err := io.ReadAll(req.Body) if err != nil { return http.StatusBadRequest, "failed to read body" } if len(body) == 0 { return http.StatusBadRequest, "POST requires a non-empty body" } incoming, _, err := readBatch(body) if err != nil { return http.StatusBadRequest, fmt.Sprintf("malformed payload: %v", err) } requests := make(map[jsonrpc.ID]struct{}) for _, msg := range incoming { if req, ok := msg.(*jsonrpc.Request); ok { // Preemptively check that this is a valid request, so that we can fail // the HTTP request. If we didn't do this, a request with a bad method or // missing ID could be silently swallowed. if _, err := checkRequest(req, serverMethodInfos); err != nil { return http.StatusBadRequest, err.Error() } if req.ID.IsValid() { requests[req.ID] = struct{}{} } } } // Update accounting for this request. stream := newStream(StreamID(t.nextStreamID.Add(1))) t.mu.Lock() t.streams[stream.id] = stream if len(requests) > 0 { stream.requests = make(map[jsonrpc.ID]struct{}) } for reqID := range requests { t.requestStreams[reqID] = stream.id stream.requests[reqID] = struct{}{} } t.mu.Unlock() stream.signal.Store(signalChanPtr()) // Publish incoming messages. for _, msg := range incoming { t.incoming <- msg } // TODO(rfindley): consider optimizing for a single incoming request, by // responding with application/json when there is only a single message in // the response. // (But how would we know there is only a single message? For example, couldn't // a progress notification be sent before a response on the same context?) return t.streamResponse(stream, w, req, -1) } // lastIndex is the index of the last seen event if resuming, else -1. func (t *StreamableServerTransport) streamResponse(stream *stream, w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, lastIndex int) (int, string) { defer stream.signal.Store(nil) writes := 0 // write one event containing data. write := func(data []byte) bool { lastIndex++ e := Event{ Name: "message", ID: formatEventID(stream.id, lastIndex), Data: data, } if _, err := writeEvent(w, e); err != nil { // Connection closed or broken. // TODO(#170): log when we add server-side logging. return false } writes++ return true } w.Header().Set(sessionIDHeader, t.sessionID) w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/event-stream") // Accept checked in [StreamableHTTPHandler] w.Header().Set("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-transform") w.Header().Set("Connection", "keep-alive") if lastIndex >= 0 { // Resume. for data, err := range t.opts.EventStore.After(req.Context(), t.SessionID(), stream.id, lastIndex) { if err != nil { // TODO: reevaluate these status codes. // Maybe distinguish between storage errors, which are 500s, and missing // session or stream ID--can these arise from bad input? status := http.StatusInternalServerError if errors.Is(err, ErrEventsPurged) { status = http.StatusInsufficientStorage } return status, err.Error() } // The iterator yields events beginning just after lastIndex, or it would have // yielded an error. if !write(data) { return 0, "" } } } stream: // Repeatedly collect pending outgoing events and send them. for { t.mu.Lock() outgoing := stream.outgoing stream.outgoing = nil nOutstanding := len(stream.requests) t.mu.Unlock() for _, data := range outgoing { if err := t.opts.EventStore.Append(req.Context(), t.SessionID(), stream.id, data); err != nil { return http.StatusInternalServerError, err.Error() } if !write(data) { return 0, "" } } // If all requests have been handled and replied to, we should terminate this connection. // "After the JSON-RPC response has been sent, the server SHOULD close the SSE stream." // ยง6.4, https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic/transports#sending-messages-to-the-server // We only want to terminate POSTs, and GETs that are replaying. The general-purpose GET // (stream ID 0) will never have requests, and should remain open indefinitely. // TODO: implement the GET case. if req.Method == http.MethodPost && nOutstanding == 0 { if writes == 0 { // Spec: If the server accepts the input, the server MUST return HTTP // status code 202 Accepted with no body. w.WriteHeader(http.StatusAccepted) } return 0, "" } select { case <-*stream.signal.Load(): // there are new outgoing messages // return to top of loop case <-t.done: // session is closed if writes == 0 { return http.StatusGone, "session terminated" } break stream case <-req.Context().Done(): if writes == 0 { w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent) } break stream } } return 0, "" } // Event IDs: encode both the logical connection ID and the index, as // _, to be consistent with the typescript implementation. // formatEventID returns the event ID to use for the logical connection ID // streamID and message index idx. // // See also [parseEventID]. func formatEventID(sid StreamID, idx int) string { return fmt.Sprintf("%d_%d", sid, idx) } // parseEventID parses a Last-Event-ID value into a logical stream id and // index. // // See also [formatEventID]. func parseEventID(eventID string) (sid StreamID, idx int, ok bool) { parts := strings.Split(eventID, "_") if len(parts) != 2 { return 0, 0, false } stream, err := strconv.ParseInt(parts[0], 10, 64) if err != nil || stream < 0 { return 0, 0, false } idx, err = strconv.Atoi(parts[1]) if err != nil || idx < 0 { return 0, 0, false } return StreamID(stream), idx, true } // Read implements the [Connection] interface. func (t *StreamableServerTransport) Read(ctx context.Context) (jsonrpc.Message, error) { select { case <-ctx.Done(): return nil, ctx.Err() case msg, ok := <-t.incoming: if !ok { return nil, io.EOF } return msg, nil case <-t.done: return nil, io.EOF } } // Write implements the [Connection] interface. func (t *StreamableServerTransport) Write(ctx context.Context, msg jsonrpc.Message) error { // Find the incoming request that this write relates to, if any. var forRequest jsonrpc.ID isResponse := false if resp, ok := msg.(*jsonrpc.Response); ok { // If the message is a response, it relates to its request (of course). forRequest = resp.ID isResponse = true } else { // Otherwise, we check to see if it request was made in the context of an // ongoing request. This may not be the case if the request way made with // an unrelated context. if v := ctx.Value(idContextKey{}); v != nil { forRequest = v.(jsonrpc.ID) } } // Find the logical connection corresponding to this request. // // For messages sent outside of a request context, this is the default // connection 0. var forConn StreamID if forRequest.IsValid() { t.mu.Lock() forConn = t.requestStreams[forRequest] t.mu.Unlock() } data, err := jsonrpc2.EncodeMessage(msg) if err != nil { return err } t.mu.Lock() defer t.mu.Unlock() if t.isDone { return errors.New("session is closed") } stream := t.streams[forConn] if stream == nil { return fmt.Errorf("no stream with ID %d", forConn) } if len(stream.requests) == 0 && forConn != 0 { // No outstanding requests for this connection, which means it is logically // done. This is a sequencing violation from the server, so we should report // a side-channel error here. Put the message on the general queue to avoid // dropping messages. stream = t.streams[0] } // TODO: if there is nothing to send these messages to (as would happen, for example, if forConn == 0 // and the client never did a GET), then memory will grow without bound. Consider a mitigation. stream.outgoing = append(stream.outgoing, data) if isResponse { // Once we've put the reply on the queue, it's no longer outstanding. delete(stream.requests, forRequest) } // Signal streamResponse that new work is available. signalp := stream.signal.Load() if signalp != nil { select { case *signalp <- struct{}{}: default: } } return nil } // Close implements the [Connection] interface. func (t *StreamableServerTransport) Close() error { t.mu.Lock() defer t.mu.Unlock() if !t.isDone { t.isDone = true close(t.done) // TODO: find a way to plumb a context here, or an event store with a long-running // close operation can take arbitrary time. Alternative: impose a fixed timeout here. return t.opts.EventStore.SessionClosed(context.TODO(), t.sessionID) } return nil } // A StreamableClientTransport is a [Transport] that can communicate with an MCP // endpoint serving the streamable HTTP transport defined by the 2025-03-26 // version of the spec. type StreamableClientTransport struct { url string opts StreamableClientTransportOptions } // StreamableReconnectOptions defines parameters for client reconnect attempts. type StreamableReconnectOptions struct { // MaxRetries is the maximum number of times to attempt a reconnect before giving up. // A value of 0 or less means never retry. MaxRetries int // growFactor is the multiplicative factor by which the delay increases after each attempt. // A value of 1.0 results in a constant delay, while a value of 2.0 would double it each time. // It must be 1.0 or greater if MaxRetries is greater than 0. growFactor float64 // initialDelay is the base delay for the first reconnect attempt. initialDelay time.Duration // maxDelay caps the backoff delay, preventing it from growing indefinitely. maxDelay time.Duration } // DefaultReconnectOptions provides sensible defaults for reconnect logic. var DefaultReconnectOptions = &StreamableReconnectOptions{ MaxRetries: 5, growFactor: 1.5, initialDelay: 1 * time.Second, maxDelay: 30 * time.Second, } // StreamableClientTransportOptions provides options for the // [NewStreamableClientTransport] constructor. type StreamableClientTransportOptions struct { // HTTPClient is the client to use for making HTTP requests. If nil, // http.DefaultClient is used. HTTPClient *http.Client ReconnectOptions *StreamableReconnectOptions } // NewStreamableClientTransport returns a new client transport that connects to // the streamable HTTP server at the provided URL. func NewStreamableClientTransport(url string, opts *StreamableClientTransportOptions) *StreamableClientTransport { t := &StreamableClientTransport{url: url} if opts != nil { t.opts = *opts } return t } // Connect implements the [Transport] interface. // // The resulting [Connection] writes messages via POST requests to the // transport URL with the Mcp-Session-Id header set, and reads messages from // hanging requests. // // When closed, the connection issues a DELETE request to terminate the logical // session. func (t *StreamableClientTransport) Connect(ctx context.Context) (Connection, error) { client := t.opts.HTTPClient if client == nil { client = http.DefaultClient } reconnOpts := t.opts.ReconnectOptions if reconnOpts == nil { reconnOpts = DefaultReconnectOptions } // Create a new cancellable context that will manage the connection's lifecycle. // This is crucial for cleanly shutting down the background SSE listener by // cancelling its blocking network operations, which prevents hangs on exit. connCtx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background()) conn := &streamableClientConn{ url: t.url, client: client, incoming: make(chan []byte, 100), done: make(chan struct{}), ReconnectOptions: reconnOpts, ctx: connCtx, cancel: cancel, } // Start the persistent SSE listener right away. // Section 2.2: The client MAY issue an HTTP GET to the MCP endpoint. // This can be used to open an SSE stream, allowing the server to // communicate to the client, without the client first sending data via HTTP POST. go conn.handleSSE(nil, true) return conn, nil } type streamableClientConn struct { url string client *http.Client incoming chan []byte done chan struct{} ReconnectOptions *StreamableReconnectOptions closeOnce sync.Once closeErr error ctx context.Context cancel context.CancelFunc mu sync.Mutex protocolVersion string _sessionID string err error } func (c *streamableClientConn) setProtocolVersion(s string) { c.mu.Lock() defer c.mu.Unlock() c.protocolVersion = s } func (c *streamableClientConn) SessionID() string { c.mu.Lock() defer c.mu.Unlock() return c._sessionID } // Read implements the [Connection] interface. func (s *streamableClientConn) Read(ctx context.Context) (jsonrpc.Message, error) { s.mu.Lock() err := s.err s.mu.Unlock() if err != nil { return nil, err } select { case <-ctx.Done(): return nil, ctx.Err() case <-s.done: return nil, io.EOF case data := <-s.incoming: return jsonrpc2.DecodeMessage(data) } } // Write implements the [Connection] interface. func (s *streamableClientConn) Write(ctx context.Context, msg jsonrpc.Message) error { s.mu.Lock() if s.err != nil { s.mu.Unlock() return s.err } sessionID := s._sessionID if sessionID == "" { // Hold lock for the first request. defer s.mu.Unlock() } else { s.mu.Unlock() } gotSessionID, err := s.postMessage(ctx, sessionID, msg) if err != nil { if sessionID != "" { // unlocked; lock to set err s.mu.Lock() defer s.mu.Unlock() } if s.err != nil { s.err = err } return err } if sessionID == "" { // locked s._sessionID = gotSessionID } return nil } // postMessage POSTs msg to the server and reads the response. // It returns the session ID from the response. func (s *streamableClientConn) postMessage(ctx context.Context, sessionID string, msg jsonrpc.Message) (string, error) { data, err := jsonrpc2.EncodeMessage(msg) if err != nil { return "", err } req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, s.url, bytes.NewReader(data)) if err != nil { return "", err } if s.protocolVersion != "" { req.Header.Set(protocolVersionHeader, s.protocolVersion) } if sessionID != "" { req.Header.Set(sessionIDHeader, sessionID) } req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json") req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json, text/event-stream") resp, err := s.client.Do(req) if err != nil { return "", err } if resp.StatusCode < 200 || resp.StatusCode >= 300 { // TODO: do a best effort read of the body here, and format it in the error. resp.Body.Close() return "", fmt.Errorf("broken session: %v", resp.Status) } sessionID = resp.Header.Get(sessionIDHeader) switch ct := resp.Header.Get("Content-Type"); ct { case "text/event-stream": // Section 2.1: The SSE stream is initiated after a POST. go s.handleSSE(resp, false) case "application/json": body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body) resp.Body.Close() if err != nil { return "", err } select { case s.incoming <- body: case <-s.done: // The connection was closed by the client; exit gracefully. } return sessionID, nil default: resp.Body.Close() return "", fmt.Errorf("unsupported content type %q", ct) } return sessionID, nil } // handleSSE manages the lifecycle of an SSE connection. It can be either // persistent (for the main GET listener) or temporary (for a POST response). func (s *streamableClientConn) handleSSE(initialResp *http.Response, persistent bool) { resp := initialResp var lastEventID string for { eventID, clientClosed := s.processStream(resp) lastEventID = eventID // If the connection was closed by the client, we're done. if clientClosed { return } // If the stream has ended, then do not reconnect if the stream is // temporary (POST initiated SSE). if lastEventID == "" && !persistent { return } // The stream was interrupted or ended by the server. Attempt to reconnect. newResp, err := s.reconnect(lastEventID) if err != nil { // All reconnection attempts failed. Set the final error, close the // connection, and exit the goroutine. s.mu.Lock() s.err = err s.mu.Unlock() s.Close() return } // Reconnection was successful. Continue the loop with the new response. resp = newResp } } // processStream reads from a single response body, sending events to the // incoming channel. It returns the ID of the last processed event, any error // that occurred, and a flag indicating if the connection was closed by the client. // If resp is nil, it returns "", false. func (s *streamableClientConn) processStream(resp *http.Response) (lastEventID string, clientClosed bool) { if resp == nil { return "", false } defer resp.Body.Close() for evt, err := range scanEvents(resp.Body) { if err != nil { return lastEventID, false } if evt.ID != "" { lastEventID = evt.ID } select { case s.incoming <- evt.Data: case <-s.done: // The connection was closed by the client; exit gracefully. return "", true } } // The loop finished without an error, indicating the server closed the stream. return "", false } // reconnect handles the logic of retrying a connection with an exponential // backoff strategy. It returns a new, valid HTTP response if successful, or // an error if all retries are exhausted. func (s *streamableClientConn) reconnect(lastEventID string) (*http.Response, error) { var finalErr error for attempt := 0; attempt < s.ReconnectOptions.MaxRetries; attempt++ { select { case <-s.done: return nil, fmt.Errorf("connection closed by client during reconnect") case <-time.After(calculateReconnectDelay(s.ReconnectOptions, attempt)): resp, err := s.establishSSE(lastEventID) if err != nil { finalErr = err // Store the error and try again. continue } if !isResumable(resp) { // The server indicated we should not continue. resp.Body.Close() return nil, fmt.Errorf("reconnection failed with unresumable status: %s", resp.Status) } return resp, nil } } // If the loop completes, all retries have failed. if finalErr != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("connection failed after %d attempts: %w", s.ReconnectOptions.MaxRetries, finalErr) } return nil, fmt.Errorf("connection failed after %d attempts", s.ReconnectOptions.MaxRetries) } // isResumable checks if an HTTP response indicates a valid SSE stream that can be processed. func isResumable(resp *http.Response) bool { // Per the spec, a 405 response means the server doesn't support SSE streams at this endpoint. if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusMethodNotAllowed { return false } return strings.Contains(resp.Header.Get("Content-Type"), "text/event-stream") } // Close implements the [Connection] interface. func (s *streamableClientConn) Close() error { s.closeOnce.Do(func() { // Cancel any hanging network requests. s.cancel() close(s.done) req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodDelete, s.url, nil) if err != nil { s.closeErr = err } else { // TODO(jba): confirm that we don't need a lock here, or add locking. if s.protocolVersion != "" { req.Header.Set(protocolVersionHeader, s.protocolVersion) } req.Header.Set(sessionIDHeader, s._sessionID) if _, err := s.client.Do(req); err != nil { s.closeErr = err } } }) return s.closeErr } // establishSSE establishes the persistent SSE listening stream. // It is used for reconnect attempts using the Last-Event-ID header to // resume a broken stream where it left off. func (s *streamableClientConn) establishSSE(lastEventID string) (*http.Response, error) { req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(s.ctx, http.MethodGet, s.url, nil) if err != nil { return nil, err } s.mu.Lock() if s._sessionID != "" { req.Header.Set("Mcp-Session-Id", s._sessionID) } s.mu.Unlock() if lastEventID != "" { req.Header.Set("Last-Event-ID", lastEventID) } req.Header.Set("Accept", "text/event-stream") return s.client.Do(req) } // calculateReconnectDelay calculates a delay using exponential backoff with full jitter. func calculateReconnectDelay(opts *StreamableReconnectOptions, attempt int) time.Duration { // Calculate the exponential backoff using the grow factor. backoffDuration := time.Duration(float64(opts.initialDelay) * math.Pow(opts.growFactor, float64(attempt))) // Cap the backoffDuration at maxDelay. backoffDuration = min(backoffDuration, opts.maxDelay) // Use a full jitter using backoffDuration jitter := rand.N(backoffDuration) return backoffDuration + jitter }