go-sdk/auth/auth.go
Maciej Kisiel c9317fb5b7
all: client side OAuth support (#785)
This PR introduces client-side OAuth support.

# Overall design philosophy

The main new interface introduced to support client-side OAuth is the
`OAuthHandler`. Contrary to its counter-parts in some other SDKs, it is
intentionally small and generic so that it can support most of the OAuth
authorization flow variants. The main `mcp` package purposefully
delegates almost all auth handling to `OAuthHandler` implementations.
This way, the `mcp` package continues to be largely OAuth agnostic.

The `auth` package comes with a default `OAuthHandler` implementation –
`AuthorizationCodeHandler`, which implements the authorization flow
for the `authorization_code` grant type, as defined in the [MCP
specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/basic/authorization).
It is expected that the `OAuthHandler` implementation granularity will
be roughly per grant type, as this parameter influences the
authorization flow the most.

# Detailed design

## `OAuthHandler` (auth/client.go)

The main interface for the integration consists of two methods:

```go
type OAuthHandler interface {
	// TokenSource returns a token source to be used for outgoing requests.
	// Returned token source might be nil. In that case, the transport will not
	// add any authorization headers to the request.
	TokenSource(context.Context) (oauth2.TokenSource, error)

	// Authorize is called when an HTTP request results in an error that may
	// be addressed by the authorization flow (currently 401 Unauthorized and 403 Forbidden).
	// It is responsible for performing the OAuth flow to obtain an access token.
	// The arguments are the request that failed and the response that was received for it.
	// The headers of the request are available, but the body will have already been consumed
	// when Authorize is called.
	// If the returned error is nil, TokenSource is expected to return a non-nil token source.
	// After a successful call to Authorize, the HTTP request will be retried by the transport.
	// The function is responsible for closing the response body.
	Authorize(context.Context, *http.Request, *http.Response) error
}
```

`StreamableClientTransport` accepts this interface as a field and uses
the `TokenSource` method to add an `Authorization: Bearer` header to
outgoing requests to the MCP server. If the request fails with `401:
Unauthorized` or `403: Forbidden`, the transport calls `Authorize` to
perform the authorization flow. If `Authorize` returns a non-nil error,
the request is retried once. `Authorize` errors do not result in
termination of the client session (unless they happen during
connection initialization), as some OAuth flows are multi-legged and it should be
acceptable to retry for example when the authorization grant was
received.

*Note:* There was already an `OAuthHandler` type defined as part of a
previous iteration of OAuth support. It was renamed to
`OAuthHandlerLegacy`. This is the only backwards incompatible API change
in the experimental client `auth` part (protected by the
`mcp_go_client_oauth` Go build tag). The cost of replacing previous
usages is deemed worthwhile to maintain clear naming, under the
assumption that the experimental client `auth` part was not widely used.

## `AuthorizationCodeHandler` (auth/authorization_code.go)

This is the `OAuthHandler` implementation that fulfills the [MCP
specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/basic/authorization).
In particular, in supports:

- Protected Resource Metadata discovery and fetching
- Authorization Server Metadata discovery and fetching
- Client registration
  - OpenID Connect metadata document
  - Pre-registration
  - Dynamic Client Registration
- PKCE
- `client_secret_post`, `client_secret_basic` token endpoint
auth methods
- Automatic refresh of tokens

### Authorization Server redirect

As part of the flow for the `authorization_code` grant type, the client
needs to point the user to the authorization URL, so that they confirm
the access request. This design proposes that it will be supported via a
pluggable dependency that will initiate this process in an
application-specific way:

```go
type AuthorizationCodeHandler struct {
	...

	// AuthorizationCodeFetcher is a required function called to initiate the authorization flow.
	// It is responsible for opening the URL in a browser for the user to start the authorization process.
	// It should return the authorization code and state once the Authorization Server
	// redirects back to the RedirectURL.
	AuthorizationCodeFetcher func(ctx context.Context, args *AuthorizationArgs) (*AuthorizationResult, error)

	...
}
```

The function is supposed perform any application specific logic to handle the redirect
from the Authorization Server and return the resulting code and state.

## `oauthex` changes

Some additional/adjusted building blocks that may be useful when
creating `OAuthHandler` implementations are present in the `oauthex`
package:

- `auth_meta.go`: Authorization Server Metadata utilities:
  - `GetAuthServerMeta`: get Authorization Server Metadata from a URL
- `dcr.go`: Dynamic Client Registration utilities (unchanged)
- `resource_meta.go`: Protected Resource Metadata utilities:
- `GetProtectedResourceMetadata`: get Protected Resource Metadata from a
URL
  - `ParseWWWAuthenticate` – as per name (unchanged)
- [deprecated] `GetProtectedResourceMetadataFromID` and
`GetProtectedResourceMetadataFromHeader` in favor of more generic
`GetProtectedResourceMetadata`. They will be kept under the Go build tag
and removed one version of the SDK in the future.
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// 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 auth
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"net/http"
"slices"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk/oauthex"
)
// TokenInfo holds information from a bearer token.
type TokenInfo struct {
Scopes []string
Expiration time.Time
// UserID is an optional identifier for the authenticated user.
// If set by a TokenVerifier, it can be used by transports to prevent
// session hijacking by ensuring that all requests for a given session
// come from the same user.
UserID string
Extra map[string]any
}
// The error that a TokenVerifier should return if the token cannot be verified.
var ErrInvalidToken = errors.New("invalid token")
// The error that a TokenVerifier should return for OAuth-specific protocol errors.
var ErrOAuth = errors.New("oauth error")
// A TokenVerifier checks the validity of a bearer token, and extracts information
// from it. If verification fails, it should return an error that unwraps to ErrInvalidToken.
// The HTTP request is provided in case verifying the token involves checking it.
type TokenVerifier func(ctx context.Context, token string, req *http.Request) (*TokenInfo, error)
// RequireBearerTokenOptions are options for [RequireBearerToken].
type RequireBearerTokenOptions struct {
// The URL for the resource server metadata OAuth flow, to be returned as part
// of the WWW-Authenticate header.
ResourceMetadataURL string
// The required scopes.
Scopes []string
}
type tokenInfoKey struct{}
// TokenInfoFromContext returns the [TokenInfo] stored in ctx, or nil if none.
func TokenInfoFromContext(ctx context.Context) *TokenInfo {
ti := ctx.Value(tokenInfoKey{})
if ti == nil {
return nil
}
return ti.(*TokenInfo)
}
// RequireBearerToken returns a piece of middleware that verifies a bearer token using the verifier.
// If verification succeeds, the [TokenInfo] is added to the request's context and the request proceeds.
// If verification fails, the request fails with a 401 Unauthenticated, and the WWW-Authenticate header
// is populated to enable [protected resource metadata].
//
// [protected resource metadata]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9728
func RequireBearerToken(verifier TokenVerifier, opts *RequireBearerTokenOptions) func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
// Based on typescript-sdk/src/server/auth/middleware/bearerAuth.ts.
return func(handler http.Handler) http.Handler {
return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
tokenInfo, errmsg, code := verify(r, verifier, opts)
if code != 0 {
if code == http.StatusUnauthorized || code == http.StatusForbidden {
if opts != nil && opts.ResourceMetadataURL != "" {
w.Header().Add("WWW-Authenticate", "Bearer resource_metadata="+opts.ResourceMetadataURL)
}
}
http.Error(w, errmsg, code)
return
}
r = r.WithContext(context.WithValue(r.Context(), tokenInfoKey{}, tokenInfo))
handler.ServeHTTP(w, r)
})
}
}
func verify(req *http.Request, verifier TokenVerifier, opts *RequireBearerTokenOptions) (_ *TokenInfo, errmsg string, code int) {
// Extract bearer token.
authHeader := req.Header.Get("Authorization")
fields := strings.Fields(authHeader)
if len(fields) != 2 || strings.ToLower(fields[0]) != "bearer" {
return nil, "no bearer token", http.StatusUnauthorized
}
// Verify the token and get information from it.
tokenInfo, err := verifier(req.Context(), fields[1], req)
if err != nil {
if errors.Is(err, ErrInvalidToken) {
return nil, err.Error(), http.StatusUnauthorized
}
if errors.Is(err, ErrOAuth) {
return nil, err.Error(), http.StatusBadRequest
}
return nil, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError
}
if tokenInfo == nil {
return nil, "token validation failed", http.StatusInternalServerError
}
// Check scopes. All must be present.
if opts != nil {
// Note: quadratic, but N is small.
for _, s := range opts.Scopes {
if !slices.Contains(tokenInfo.Scopes, s) {
return nil, "insufficient scope", http.StatusForbidden
}
}
}
// Check expiration.
if tokenInfo.Expiration.IsZero() {
return nil, "token missing expiration", http.StatusUnauthorized
}
if tokenInfo.Expiration.Before(time.Now()) {
return nil, "token expired", http.StatusUnauthorized
}
return tokenInfo, "", 0
}
// ProtectedResourceMetadataHandler returns an http.Handler that serves OAuth 2.0
// protected resource metadata (RFC 9728) with CORS support.
//
// This handler allows cross-origin requests from any origin (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *)
// because OAuth metadata is public information intended for client discovery (RFC 9728 §3.1).
// The metadata contains only non-sensitive configuration data about authorization servers
// and supported scopes.
//
// No validation of metadata fields is performed; ensure metadata accuracy at configuration time.
//
// For more sophisticated CORS policies or to restrict origins, wrap this handler with a
// CORS middleware like github.com/rs/cors or github.com/jub0bs/cors.
func ProtectedResourceMetadataHandler(metadata *oauthex.ProtectedResourceMetadata) http.Handler {
return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
// Set CORS headers for cross-origin client discovery.
// OAuth metadata is public information, so allowing any origin is safe.
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, OPTIONS")
w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type")
// Handle CORS preflight requests
if r.Method == http.MethodOptions {
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
return
}
// Only GET allowed for metadata retrieval
if r.Method != http.MethodGet {
http.Error(w, "Method not allowed", http.StatusMethodNotAllowed)
return
}
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
if err := json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(metadata); err != nil {
http.Error(w, "Failed to encode metadata", http.StatusInternalServerError)
return
}
})
}