diff --git a/clients/web/src/test/core/auth/requestTimeout.test.ts b/clients/web/src/test/core/auth/requestTimeout.test.ts
index 3fb90a68..832a147b 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/test/core/auth/requestTimeout.test.ts
+++ b/clients/web/src/test/core/auth/requestTimeout.test.ts
@@ -266,30 +266,12 @@ describe("withOAuthRequestTimeout", () => {
     expect((await assertion) as Error).toBeInstanceOf(OAuthRequestTimeoutError);
   });
 
-  it("returns a readable response whose metadata survives the rebuild", async () => {
+  it("hands back the original response, not a copy", async () => {
     const original = new Response('{"issuer":"https://as.example.com"}', {
       status: 201,
       statusText: "Created",
       headers: { "content-type": "application/json", "x-probe": "kept" },
     });
-    // Seeded to NON-default values, which is the whole point of the case: a
-    // synthetic `new Response(...)` already has `url === ""`, `redirected ===
-    // false` and `type === "default"` — exactly the rebuilt response's own
-    // defaults — so asserting against those would stay green with the
-    // `Object.defineProperty` loop deleted from `rebuildResponse` (Copilot).
-    // These are read-only getters, hence the same mechanism the source uses.
-    Object.defineProperty(original, "url", {
-      value: "https://as.example.com/redirected",
-      configurable: true,
-    });
-    Object.defineProperty(original, "redirected", {
-      value: true,
-      configurable: true,
-    });
-    Object.defineProperty(original, "type", {
-      value: "cors",
-      configurable: true,
-    });
     const wrapped = withOAuthRequestTimeout(
       vi.fn<typeof fetch>().mockResolvedValue(original),
       1000,
@@ -297,68 +279,84 @@ describe("withOAuthRequestTimeout", () => {
 
     const response = await wrapped(URL_UNDER_TEST);
 
-    expect(response.status).toBe(201);
-    expect(response.statusText).toBe("Created");
-    expect(response.ok).toBe(true);
-    expect(response.headers.get("x-probe")).toBe("kept");
-    expect(response.headers.get("content-encoding")).toBeNull();
-    expect(response.headers.get("content-length")).toBeNull();
-    expect(response.url).toBe("https://as.example.com/redirected");
-    expect(response.redirected).toBe(true);
-    expect(response.type).toBe("cors");
-    // The rebuild must not change what enumerates. Which keys a `Response` owns
-    // is the host's business — under the Fetch standard these three are
-    // prototype getters and a native response has no own enumerable keys, while
-    // happy-dom makes them own enumerable data properties — so this compares
-    // against a baseline built in the same runtime rather than asserting either
-    // answer. Hard-coding one would make the rebuilt response observably
-    // different from a response that never passed through the wrapper, in
-    // `Object.keys`, object spread and `JSON.stringify`.
-    const baseline = Object.keys(new Response("{}")).sort();
-    expect(Object.keys(response).sort()).toEqual(baseline);
+    // Identity, which is the strongest form of "nothing was changed": every
+    // native slot, the headers guard and `clone()` behave as they would if this
+    // wrapper were not in the chain at all.
+    expect(response).toBe(original);
     await expect(response.json()).resolves.toEqual({
       issuer: "https://as.example.com",
     });
   });
 
-  it("drops content-encoding and content-length, which the buffer invalidates", async () => {
-    // `arrayBuffer()` hands back the *decoded* entity body, so an inherited
-    // `content-encoding` would describe an encoding the bytes no longer have
-    // and the inherited `content-length` would be the compressed size. Both are
-    // wrong, and both show up in the Network capture.
-    const decoded = '{"issuer":"https://as.example.com"}';
+  it("leaves the body readable after draining the clone", async () => {
+    // The bound works by draining a clone; teeing buffers the other branch, so
+    // the caller must still be able to read the original without a second trip.
     const wrapped = withOAuthRequestTimeout(
-      vi.fn<typeof fetch>().mockResolvedValue(
-        new Response(decoded, {
-          headers: {
-            "content-type": "application/json",
-            "content-encoding": "gzip",
-            "content-length": "42",
-          },
-        }),
-      ),
+      vi.fn<typeof fetch>().mockResolvedValue(new Response("hello")),
       1000,
     );
 
     const response = await wrapped(URL_UNDER_TEST);
 
-    expect(response.headers.get("content-encoding")).toBeNull();
-    expect(response.headers.get("content-length")).toBeNull();
-    expect(response.headers.get("content-type")).toBe("application/json");
-    await expect(response.text()).resolves.toBe(decoded);
+    expect(response.bodyUsed).toBe(false);
+    await expect(response.text()).resolves.toBe("hello");
   });
 
-  it("rebuilds a null-body status without handing it a body", async () => {
-    // `new Response(body, { status: 204 })` throws; the rebuild has to pass null.
+  it("leaves the caller free to clone it again, with metadata intact", async () => {
+    // The case a rebuilt response could never satisfy: `url` / `redirected` /
+    // `type` are internal slots, so a shadowed own property survives a direct
+    // read and is lost the moment anyone calls `clone()`.
+    const original = new Response("{}", { status: 200 });
+    Object.defineProperty(original, "url", {
+      value: "https://as.example.com/redirected",
+      configurable: true,
+    });
+    Object.defineProperty(original, "redirected", {
+      value: true,
+      configurable: true,
+    });
     const wrapped = withOAuthRequestTimeout(
-      vi
-        .fn<typeof fetch>()
-        .mockResolvedValue(new Response(null, { status: 204 })),
+      vi.fn<typeof fetch>().mockResolvedValue(original),
+      1000,
+    );
+
+    const response = await wrapped(URL_UNDER_TEST);
+    const copy = response.clone();
+
+    expect(copy.url).toBe("https://as.example.com/redirected");
+    expect(copy.redirected).toBe(true);
+    await expect(copy.json()).resolves.toEqual({});
+  });
+
+  it("keeps content-encoding and content-length, which are the server's own", async () => {
+    // Nothing is rebuilt, so nothing invalidates them: the caller gets the
+    // response `fetch` produced and decodes it the way `fetch` intends.
+    const original = new Response("{}", {
+      headers: {
+        "content-type": "application/json",
+        "content-encoding": "gzip",
+      },
+    });
+    const wrapped = withOAuthRequestTimeout(
+      vi.fn<typeof fetch>().mockResolvedValue(original),
       1000,
     );
 
     const response = await wrapped(URL_UNDER_TEST);
 
+    expect(response.headers.get("content-encoding")).toBe("gzip");
+  });
+
+  it("passes a null-body status through untouched", async () => {
+    const original = new Response(null, { status: 204 });
+    const wrapped = withOAuthRequestTimeout(
+      vi.fn<typeof fetch>().mockResolvedValue(original),
+      1000,
+    );
+
+    const response = await wrapped(URL_UNDER_TEST);
+
+    expect(response).toBe(original);
     expect(response.status).toBe(204);
     expect(response.body).toBeNull();
   });
@@ -654,6 +652,22 @@ describe("withOAuthRequestTimeout", () => {
       );
     });
 
+    it("fails open when the server-URL getter throws", () => {
+      // `InspectorClient.getServerUrl()` throws for a non-HTTP configuration,
+      // and this wrapped fetch can still be handed to a transport or a custom
+      // factory that calls it — propagating a configuration error out of a
+      // fetch would turn the documented fail-open into a hard failure.
+      const isExempt = exemptMcpEndpoint(() => {
+        throw new Error("Server URL is only available for HTTP transports");
+      });
+
+      expect(isExempt("https://as.example.com/token", JSON_HEADERS)).toBe(true);
+      // Still not past the form-encoded check, which runs first.
+      expect(isExempt("https://as.example.com/token", FORM_HEADERS)).toBe(
+        false,
+      );
+    });
+
     it("reads the server URL per call, since it changes between connects", () => {
       let current = SERVER;
       const isExempt = exemptMcpEndpoint(() => current);
diff --git a/core/auth/requestTimeout.ts b/core/auth/requestTimeout.ts
index 5a963fe8..3ccca28d 100644
--- a/core/auth/requestTimeout.ts
+++ b/core/auth/requestTimeout.ts
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@
  * resolves as soon as response headers arrive, so a server that sends headers
  * — or half a JSON document — and then stalls would leave the caller's
  * `response.json()` hanging with nothing watching it. Every response on this
- * path is a small finite document, so the body is buffered under the same race
- * and the response rebuilt around it.
+ * path is a small finite document, so a *clone* of it is drained under the same
+ * race and the original — untouched, with every native slot intact — is what
+ * the caller gets.
  *
  * Today the common case is bounded, but only incidentally: a discovery stall
  * that happens to sit inside an SDK `initialize` rides that request's own
@@ -231,7 +232,17 @@ export function exemptMcpEndpoint(
       return false;
     }
 
-    const serverUrl = getServerUrl();
+    // `getServerUrl()` throws for a non-HTTP configuration, and this wrapped
+    // fetch can be handed to a transport or a custom factory that calls it
+    // anyway — propagating a configuration error out of a fetch would turn the
+    // documented fail-open into a hard failure (Copilot). Caught here for the
+    // same reason `readNegotiatesEndpoint` catches.
+    let serverUrl: string | undefined;
+    try {
+      serverUrl = getServerUrl();
+    } catch {
+      return true;
+    }
     if (!serverUrl) return true;
     const negotiated = readNegotiatesEndpoint(negotiatesEndpoint);
     try {
@@ -326,64 +337,6 @@ export function callerSignalOf(
   return undefined;
 }
 
-/**
- * Statuses the Fetch Standard defines as null-body. Handing the `Response`
- * constructor a body with one of these throws a `TypeError`, so the rebuilt
- * response below must pass `null` instead.
- */
-const NULL_BODY_STATUSES = new Set([101, 103, 204, 205, 304]);
-
-/**
- * Rebuild a `Response` around an already-buffered body.
- *
- * Two things have to be carried across by hand.
- *
- * `url`, `redirected` and `type` are getters with no constructor option, and
- * callers do read them — the RFC 8414/OIDC compat wrapper stamps a header
- * naming the URL a body came from, and the SDK's discovery reports the
- * responding URL in its errors. So they are copied explicitly rather than
- * silently reset to `""` / `false` / `"default"`.
- *
- * `content-encoding` and `content-length`, by contrast, must be *dropped*.
- * `arrayBuffer()` hands back the **decoded** entity body, so a gzipped metadata
- * document arrives here as plain JSON bytes: an inherited `content-encoding`
- * would describe an encoding the body no longer has, and the inherited
- * `content-length` would be the compressed size — both of them wrong, and both
- * visible in the Network capture (Copilot). `responseWithBody` in
- * `endpointOverrides.ts` deletes the same two headers for the same reason.
- */
-function rebuildResponse(response: Response, body: ArrayBuffer): Response {
-  const headers = new Headers(response.headers);
-  headers.delete("content-encoding");
-  headers.delete("content-length");
-  const rebuilt = new Response(
-    NULL_BODY_STATUSES.has(response.status) ? null : body,
-    {
-      status: response.status,
-      statusText: response.statusText,
-      headers,
-    },
-  );
-  for (const key of ["url", "redirected", "type"] as const) {
-    // Enumerability is taken from whatever the freshly built `Response` already
-    // has for this key, rather than asserted. Hard-coding either answer makes
-    // the rebuilt response observably different from a native one — and which
-    // answer is right is the host's business: under the Fetch standard (and
-    // undici) these are prototype getters with no own enumerable key at all,
-    // while happy-dom defines them as own enumerable data properties. Copying
-    // the descriptor keeps `Object.keys`, object spread and `JSON.stringify`
-    // identical to a response that never passed through here, in both
-    // (Copilot). `false` for the getter case, where there is no own descriptor.
-    const existing = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(rebuilt, key);
-    Object.defineProperty(rebuilt, key, {
-      value: response[key],
-      enumerable: existing?.enumerable ?? false,
-      configurable: true,
-    });
-  }
-  return rebuilt;
-}
-
 /**
  * Wrap a `fetch` so every call through it is bounded by `timeoutMs`.
  *
@@ -417,8 +370,9 @@ function rebuildResponse(response: Response, body: ArrayBuffer): Response {
  * a fetch that drops the signal. This wrapper only ever *adds* a reason to give
  * up; it never removes the caller's.
  *
- * The response **body** is buffered under the same deadline, because `fetch`
- * resolves on headers and a stalled body would otherwise be unbounded.
+ * The response **body** is drained through a clone under the same deadline,
+ * because `fetch` resolves on headers and a stalled body would otherwise be
+ * unbounded. The caller receives the original response, not a copy.
  */
 export function withOAuthRequestTimeout(
   fetchFn: typeof fetch,
@@ -512,8 +466,23 @@ export function withOAuthRequestTimeout(
       // not optional on a mixed chain: an exempt request skips this buffering
       // entirely, which is what lets an SSE body stay open rather than being
       // drained into memory here.
-      const body = await Promise.race([response.arrayBuffer(), abandoned]);
-      return rebuildResponse(response, body);
+      // Read a *clone* under the deadline and hand back the original. Cloning
+      // tees the body, so draining one branch buffers the other: by the time
+      // this resolves the original is fully in memory and the caller reads it
+      // without touching the network again — the bound is the same, and the
+      // response the caller gets is the one `fetch` produced.
+      //
+      // The alternative, rebuilding a `Response` around the buffered bytes,
+      // could never be faithful (Copilot). `url`, `redirected` and `type` are
+      // internal slots; shadowing them as own properties satisfies a direct
+      // read and is lost again the moment a caller calls `clone()`, which
+      // returns a fresh native `Response`. The headers guard differs too, and
+      // the decoded bytes made the inherited `content-encoding` and
+      // `content-length` wrong, so those had to be stripped — a rebuilt
+      // response was observably not the original in at least four ways. Not
+      // rebuilding removes the whole class.
+      await Promise.race([response.clone().arrayBuffer(), abandoned]);
+      return response;
     } catch (err) {
       // `controller.abort()` above can reject the underlying fetch *before*
       // `reject` runs, in which case the race settles with undici's