[Server][Tests] Validate the standard MCP request headers (SEP-2243) (#445)

The revision puts the method, the subject name and the mirrored arguments in
headers so an intermediary can route and cache without parsing the body. A
header that contradicts the body it travels with therefore has to be
refused, not ignored: StandardHeaderValidator compares each against the
request and answers -32020 on a mismatch.

Set with Builder::setHeaderValidator(); a transport with no header layer is
unaffected.
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<?php
/*
* This file is part of the official PHP MCP SDK.
*
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*/
namespace Mcp\Tests\Unit\Server\Stateless;
use Mcp\Server\Stateless\StandardHeaderValidator;
use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\DataProvider;
use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\TestDox;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
class StandardHeaderValidatorTest extends TestCase
{
private StandardHeaderValidator $validator;
protected function setUp(): void
{
// No registry: the Mcp-Param dimension needs tool definitions and is
// covered by the conformance fixture, which has real ones. Everything
// here is registry-independent.
$this->validator = new StandardHeaderValidator();
}
#[TestDox('a request whose headers agree with its body passes')]
public function testConsistentRequestPasses(): void
{
$this->assertNull($this->validator->validate(
'tools/call',
['name' => 'do_thing', 'arguments' => []],
['Mcp-Method' => 'tools/call', 'Mcp-Name' => 'do_thing'],
));
}
#[TestDox('a missing Mcp-Method is rejected')]
public function testMissingMethodHeaderRejected(): void
{
$this->assertStringContainsString(
'Mcp-Method',
(string) $this->validator->validate('tools/list', null, []),
);
}
#[TestDox('an Mcp-Method that disagrees with the body is rejected')]
public function testMismatchedMethodHeaderRejected(): void
{
$this->assertStringContainsString(
'does not match',
(string) $this->validator->validate('tools/list', null, ['Mcp-Method' => 'prompts/list']),
);
}
#[TestDox('header names compare case-insensitively')]
#[DataProvider('headerCasings')]
public function testHeaderNameCasingIsIgnored(string $name): void
{
$this->assertNull($this->validator->validate('tools/list', null, [$name => 'tools/list']));
}
/**
* @return iterable<string, array{string}>
*/
public static function headerCasings(): iterable
{
yield 'canonical' => ['Mcp-Method'];
yield 'lowercase' => ['mcp-method'];
yield 'uppercase' => ['MCP-METHOD'];
yield 'mixed' => ['mCp-MeThOd'];
}
#[TestDox('surrounding whitespace is not part of a header value (RFC 9110 §5.5)')]
public function testOptionalWhitespaceIsTrimmed(): void
{
$this->assertNull($this->validator->validate(
'tools/call',
['name' => 'do_thing'],
['Mcp-Method' => 'tools/call', 'Mcp-Name' => ' do_thing '],
));
}
#[TestDox('Mcp-Name is required when the body carries a name, and rejected when it disagrees')]
public function testNameHeaderMustMatchBody(): void
{
$body = ['name' => 'do_thing'];
$this->assertStringContainsString('Missing required Mcp-Name', (string) $this->validator->validate(
'tools/call',
$body,
['Mcp-Method' => 'tools/call'],
));
$this->assertStringContainsString('does not match', (string) $this->validator->validate(
'tools/call',
$body,
['Mcp-Method' => 'tools/call', 'Mcp-Name' => 'something_else'],
));
}
#[TestDox('a method that carries no name does not require the header')]
public function testNamelessMethodNeedsNoNameHeader(): void
{
$this->assertNull($this->validator->validate('tools/list', null, ['Mcp-Method' => 'tools/list']));
}
#[TestDox('each method names its subject through its own params member')]
#[DataProvider('nameSources')]
public function testNameIsReadFromTheRightMember(string $method, array $params, ?string $expected): void
{
$this->assertSame($expected, StandardHeaderValidator::nameFor($method, $params));
}
/**
* @return iterable<string, array{string, array<string, mixed>, ?string}>
*/
public static function nameSources(): iterable
{
yield 'tools/call uses name' => ['tools/call', ['name' => 'a'], 'a'];
yield 'prompts/get uses name' => ['prompts/get', ['name' => 'b'], 'b'];
yield 'resources/read uses uri' => ['resources/read', ['uri' => 'test://c'], 'test://c'];
yield 'tasks/get uses taskId' => ['tasks/get', ['taskId' => 'd'], 'd'];
yield 'tools/list has no subject' => ['tools/list', [], null];
// A non-string value is not a name: treating it as one would compare a
// header against something that was never a header value.
yield 'non-string name is ignored' => ['tools/call', ['name' => 42], null];
}
#[TestDox('a plain header value decodes to itself')]
public function testPlainValuePassesThroughDecode(): void
{
$this->assertSame('Hello', StandardHeaderValidator::decode('Hello'));
}
#[TestDox('a well-formed Base64 wrapper decodes to its contents')]
public function testValidBase64Decodes(): void
{
$this->assertSame('Hello', StandardHeaderValidator::decode('=?base64?'.base64_encode('Hello').'?='));
}
#[TestDox('malformed Base64 is refused rather than salvaged')]
#[DataProvider('malformedBase64')]
public function testMalformedBase64IsRefused(string $encoded): void
{
// PHP's decoder will happily return bytes for most of these. Accepting
// them would let a corrupted header silently compare equal — or, worse,
// silently unequal — instead of being reported as the transport-level
// fault it is.
$this->assertNull(StandardHeaderValidator::decode('=?base64?'.$encoded.'?='));
}
/**
* @return iterable<string, array{string}>
*/
public static function malformedBase64(): iterable
{
yield 'missing padding' => ['SGVsbG8'];
yield 'out-of-alphabet character' => ['SGVsbG8!'];
yield 'stray whitespace' => ['SGVs bG8='];
}
}