CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,19 +7,6 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-## [1.5.1] - 2026-09-09
-
-This release keeps the HTTP client working with json 3.0. That release accepts the options of `JSON.parse`
-as keywords only, and Faraday's JSON response middleware, through 2.14.3, passes them as a positional Hash,
-which Ruby 3 no longer converts, so every JSON body the client received failed as an internal error.
-The client now parses response bodies itself, the way it already handled streamed ones, and no longer
-registers the middleware. A malformed JSON body delivered whole by an adapter without streaming support
-now raises `RequestHandlerError` with `error_type: :parse_error`, as the streamed path already did.
-
-### Fixed
-
-- Parse HTTP client response bodies without Faraday's JSON middleware, which json 3.0 breaks (#546)
-
 ## [1.5.0] - 2026-09-05
 
 This release makes the client answer a server's `ping` with the empty result the specification requires.

docs/_client/authorization.md

@@ -37,13 +37,9 @@ pass an `MCP::Client::OAuth::Provider` to the transport instead of a static `Aut
 - On a `401 Unauthorized`, parse the `WWW-Authenticate` header, discover the authorization server (Protected Resource Metadata + RFC 8414 Authorization Server Metadata),
   perform Dynamic Client Registration if needed, run the OAuth 2.1 Authorization Code flow with PKCE (S256), and retry the failed request with the acquired token.
 - Fall back to the legacy 2025-03-26 discovery when the server publishes no Protected Resource Metadata, matching the TypeScript and Python SDKs: the MCP server's origin acts
-  as the authorization base URL, its metadata is fetched from `<origin>/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server` and must name that origin as its `issuer` (RFC 8414 Section 3.3),
+  as the authorization base URL, its metadata is fetched from `<origin>/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server` without the RFC 8414 issuer byte-match (which the legacy spec predates),
   and when even that is absent the spec's default endpoints `/authorize`, `/token`, and `/register` at the origin are used with PKCE S256 assumed.
-  When no Protected Resource Metadata candidate serves a JSON object, a request that could not reach the server, or that returned a `5xx` or `429`,
-  raises `Flow::MetadataUnreachableError` instead of triggering that fallback, and a body over the response cap is refused outright.
 - On subsequent 401s with a saved `refresh_token`, exchange it at the token endpoint before falling back to the full interactive flow (RFC 6749 Section 6).
-  `ClientCredentialsProvider` and `CrossAppAccessProvider` refresh the same way and fall back to their own grant instead;
-  their refresh also requires the `issuer` the SDK records on the tokens, so tokens stored without it run the grant again.
 - On a `403 Forbidden` whose `WWW-Authenticate` header carries `error="insufficient_scope"` (OAuth 2.0 step-up, RFC 6750 Section 3.1 and the MCP scope-selection-strategy),
   run a fresh authorization request for the union of the currently granted scope and the scope named in the challenge, then retry the failed request once.
   The refresh path is bypassed because refreshing would re-issue the same scope set the server just rejected. A `403` without that challenge is surfaced unchanged.
@@ -99,8 +95,6 @@ Optional keyword arguments:
 - `scope`: Space-separated scopes to request when the server's `WWW-Authenticate` does not specify one.
 - `authorization_request_validator`: Callable invoked with an `MCP::Client::OAuth::AuthorizationRequest` before any authorization request is built.
   Returning a falsy value abandons the flow with `Flow::AuthorizationRefusedError`. See [Reviewing the authorization request](#reviewing-the-authorization-request).
-- `http_client_customizer`: Callable invoked with the Faraday connection the SDK builds for the OAuth flow's own requests, after its defaults and before its origin guard.
-  See [Customizing the OAuth HTTP Client](#customizing-the-oauth-http-client).
 - `storage`: Object responding to `tokens`, `save_tokens(t)`, `client_information`, `save_client_information(info)`. Defaults to `MCP::Client::OAuth::InMemoryStorage`,
   which keeps credentials in process memory only. Persisted `client_information` is stamped with an `"issuer"` member binding it to the authorization server that
   issued it (SEP-2352): when the server's authorization server changes, the SDK discards the stale registration and its tokens and re-registers automatically
@@ -118,14 +112,6 @@ Optional keyword arguments:
   served at the URL is a separate JSON artifact from the `client_metadata` keyword above:
   the DCR `client_metadata` MUST NOT include `client_id`, while the CIMD document MUST include
   `client_id` set to the document URL, `client_name`, and `redirect_uris` covering `redirect_uri`.
-- `token_request_params`: Hash of String keys and values added to every token request the provider makes,
-  for parameters the authorization server requires beyond the grant itself, such as Auth0's `audience`.
-  Defaults to `nil`, which adds nothing. The authorization request is not affected.
-  A key the SDK sets itself (listed in `Flow::RESERVED_TOKEN_REQUEST_PARAMS`), a Hash that compares keys by identity,
-  or a value that is not a Hash of Strings is refused with `Flow::InvalidTokenRequestParamsError`, a subclass of `ArgumentError`,
-  when the provider is built, and the accepted Hash is copied and frozen.
-  Any provider that defines a `token_request_params` method gets the same treatment on every token request it makes;
-  the flow checks the returned value by the same rules and raises the same error before the token request is sent.
 
 {: .warning }
 > The OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol (RFC 7591) is deprecated as a client registration mechanism as of MCP 2026-07-28 in favor of Client ID Metadata Documents,
@@ -173,33 +159,11 @@ provider = MCP::Client::OAuth::Provider.new(
 )
 ```
 
-### Token Endpoint Errors
-
-When a token exchange or refresh fails, `MCP::Client::OAuth::Flow::AuthorizationError` includes the HTTP status and
-the authorization server's `error` and `error_description` from [RFC 6749 Section 5.2](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749#section-5.2).
-For example:
-
-```text
-Token endpoint returned status 400. invalid_request: Client must not use multiple authentication methods
-```
-
-The exception exposes `http_status`, `error`, and `error_description` readers for structured diagnostics. Missing or non-string
-diagnostic fields are `nil`; non-JSON responses retain the status-only message. Other authorization failures have `nil` readers.
-An `invalid_grant` response still raises `Flow::InvalidGrantError`, a subclass of `Flow::AuthorizationError`, so refresh-token
-recovery behavior is unchanged.
-
-Diagnostic fields are limited to 128 characters for `error` and 512 for `error_description`, including a trailing `...` when
-truncated. Characters outside the RFC's printable ASCII set are replaced with spaces, and surrounding whitespace is removed.
-The SDK excludes all other response fields, including `error_uri`, and does not include the raw response body in these errors.
-Descriptions are provider-controlled text, not guaranteed to be free of sensitive information; apply your application's logging
-and redaction policy before persisting them or displaying them to users.
-
 ### Client Credentials Grant
 
 For a confidential machine-to-machine client (no user, no browser redirect), use `MCP::Client::OAuth::ClientCredentialsProvider` instead of `Provider`.
 The transport discovers the authorization server the same way, then exchanges the OAuth 2.1 `client_credentials` grant (RFC 6749 Section 4.4) at
-the token endpoint. There is no authorization request, PKCE, or `offline_access`, because the grant is not expected to issue a refresh token (RFC 6749 Section 4.4.3);
-a refresh token the authorization server issues anyway is used on the next `401`.
+the token endpoint. There is no authorization request, PKCE, or `offline_access`, because the grant does not issue a refresh token.
 
 ```ruby
 provider = MCP::Client::OAuth::ClientCredentialsProvider.new(
@@ -207,7 +171,6 @@ provider = MCP::Client::OAuth::ClientCredentialsProvider.new(
   client_secret: ENV.fetch("MCP_CLIENT_SECRET"),
   # token_endpoint_auth_method: "client_secret_basic" (default), "client_secret_post", or "private_key_jwt"
   # scope: "mcp:read mcp:write" (optional; used when the server does not advertise scopes)
-  # token_request_params: { "audience" => "https://api.example.com" } (optional; parameters the authorization server requires)
 )
 
 transport = MCP::Client::HTTP.new(url: "https://api.example.com/mcp", oauth: provider)
@@ -223,15 +186,13 @@ Keyword arguments:
 - `private_key`, `signing_algorithm`: Required with `private_key_jwt` - the key (a PEM string
   or `OpenSSL::PKey::PKey`, never written to `storage`) signs the client assertion with `"ES256"`
   or `"RS256"`; `client_secret` must not be set, because the private key is the credential.
-- `scope`, `storage`, `authorization_request_validator`, `token_request_params`, `http_client_customizer`: Optional, same meaning as on `Provider`.
-  Use `token_request_params` for a parameter the authorization server requires on the `client_credentials` grant, such as Auth0's `audience`.
+- `scope`, `storage`, `authorization_request_validator`: Optional, same meaning as on `Provider`.
 
 ### Cross-App Access (JWT Bearer) Grant
 
 For enterprise MCP deployments where an identity provider (IdP) governs authorization (SEP-990), use `MCP::Client::OAuth::CrossAppAccessProvider` instead of `Provider`.
 The client exchanges an IdP-issued ID token for an Identity Assertion Authorization Grant (ID-JAG) at the IdP via RFC 8693 token exchange, then presents the ID-JAG
 to the MCP authorization server with the RFC 7523 `jwt-bearer` grant, authenticating with `client_secret_basic`. There is no authorization request, PKCE, DCR, or `offline_access`.
-A refresh token the authorization server issues is exchanged on the next `401` with the stored client secret, without calling `assertion_provider` again.
 Mirrors `CrossAppAccessProvider` and `requestJwtAuthorizationGrant` in the TypeScript SDK.
 
 `MCP::Client::OAuth::IDJAGTokenExchange.request` performs the RFC 8693 exchange at the IdP token endpoint. Wrap it in a callable so the same provider can plug into
@@ -262,39 +223,7 @@ Keyword arguments:
 - `assertion_provider`: Required. Callable invoked as `call(audience:, resource:)` and returning the ID-JAG assertion.
   `audience` is the MCP authorization server's validated issuer identifier; `resource` is the canonical MCP server URL (RFC 8707).
   Passing both through to `IDJAGTokenExchange.request` covers the common case.
-- `scope`, `storage`, `authorization_request_validator`, `token_request_params`, `http_client_customizer`: Optional, same meaning as on `Provider`.
-
-### Customizing the OAuth HTTP Client
-
-The requests the OAuth flow makes (Protected Resource Metadata discovery on the MCP server's origin, authorization server metadata discovery,
-dynamic client registration, and every token request the flow sends, whether the first exchange, a refresh, or a step-up) go over a Faraday connection of their own,
-not over the transport's connection: the transport's is bound to the MCP server URL and carries the `headers:` and the customizer block meant for that server.
-To add middleware to the OAuth flow's connection, or to swap its adapter, pass `http_client_customizer:` to the provider:
-
-```ruby
-provider = MCP::Client::OAuth::ClientCredentialsProvider.new(
-  client_id: "my-service",
-  client_secret: ENV.fetch("MCP_CLIENT_SECRET"),
-  http_client_customizer: ->(faraday) { faraday.use MyApp::Middleware::HttpRecorder },
-)
-```
-
-The callable receives the `Faraday::Connection` after the SDK has applied its defaults and registered the middleware that records the requested URL,
-and before the SDK registers its origin guard, the same position the transport's customizer block has on the MCP server connection.
-It may be invoked more than once, and from more than one thread at a time, so keep it free of side effects and safe to run concurrently;
-today it runs once per authorization attempt, but that is not a promise.
-A few constraints follow from the checks described below:
-
-- Do not add redirect-following middleware. Every destination check runs against the URL as written, so a request that middleware added by the customizer would send
-  to a different origin after the SDK has recorded the requested URL, whether by following a `3xx` or by rewriting the URL, is refused with `Flow::DestinationMismatchError`
-  before it reaches the adapter, as is a request that reaches the guard without that record. Middleware inserted ahead of the record with `builder.insert(0, ...)`
-  that rewrites the URL first or rebuilds the environment is outside the guard, as is following done inside an adapter, so leave both off.
-- Leave `Accept-Encoding` unset. The response cap below is measured on decoded bytes, and claiming the header turns Net::HTTP's decoding off.
-- Do not add Faraday's `raise_error` middleware. The flow reads statuses itself, both to tell an absent metadata document from a failed request
-  and to turn a token endpoint error into `Flow::InvalidGrantError`.
-- With an adapter that does not stream through `on_data`, the response cap is applied once the body has been buffered rather than as it arrives.
-- A middleware that records requests sees the client credentials on token requests (`Authorization: Basic`, `client_secret`, `client_assertion`), refresh tokens,
-  and the access tokens in token responses; redact them before they reach a log.
+- `scope`, `storage`, `authorization_request_validator`: Optional, same meaning as on `Provider`.
 
 ### Communication Security
 
@@ -326,11 +255,8 @@ The range check compares IP literals and does not resolve hostnames, so it canno
 such as `https://vault.corp.internal/`. Resolving names here would not close that gap either, because the address the SDK looked up need not be the one
 the HTTP client connects to a moment later. The same-origin rule is what protects the `resource_metadata` URL, which is the only one of these a server supplies directly.
 
-On the connection the SDK builds, a middleware that would send a request to a different origin, by following a `3xx` or by rewriting the URL, is refused before the request
-goes out (see [Customizing the OAuth HTTP Client](#customizing-the-oauth-http-client)). A connection supplied through `MCP::Client::OAuth::Flow.new(http_client_factory:)`
-replaces that one, the provider's `http_client_customizer` and the guard included, so do not add redirect-following middleware to it: every check above runs against
-the URL as written, and a connection that follows a `3xx` on its own would reach hosts these rules just refused.
-A factory that wants to keep them can return `MCP::Client::OAuth::Flow.build_http_client(customizer)`, the connection the SDK builds for itself.
+If you replace the OAuth HTTP client through `MCP::Client::OAuth::Flow.new(http_client_factory:)`, do not add redirect-following middleware. Every check above runs against
+the URL as written, so a connection that follows a `3xx` on its own would reach hosts these rules just refused.
 
 The SDK also bounds what those endpoints may return. A discovery, dynamic client registration, token, or token exchange response is refused once it passes 4 MiB,
 measured as the body arrives rather than after it has been buffered, so a compressed body that expands past the limit is refused partway through the expansion.

docs/_client/index.md

@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ This class supports:
 - Lifecycle negotiation and connection via `MCP::Client#connect`, adopting the modern lifecycle
   when the server serves it; see [Lifecycle](/client/lifecycle/)
 - Server discovery via the `server/discover` method (`MCP::Client#discover`); see [Explicit Discovery](/client/lifecycle/#explicit-discovery)
-- Liveness check via the `ping` method (`MCP::Client#ping`), and automatic answers to server pings;
-  see [Answering Server Pings](/client/ping/#answering-server-pings)
+- Liveness check via the `ping` method (`MCP::Client#ping`)
 - Tool listing via the `tools/list` method (`MCP::Client#tools`)
 - Tool invocation via the `tools/call` method (`MCP::Client#call_tool`)
 - Resource listing via the `resources/list` method (`MCP::Client#resources`)

docs/_client/ping.md

@@ -32,17 +32,13 @@ propagate as exceptions raised by the transport layer.
 ## Answering Server Pings
 
 On handshake-lifecycle connections a server may ping the client the same way, and the client answers automatically with
-the empty result - no handler is needed. Over HTTP a ping reaches the client only on a stream that is already open
-(the SSE response of an in-flight POST, or the GET listening stream); the client never opens a stream just to receive pings.
+the empty result - no handler is needed. Registering `transport.on_server_request("ping")` on `MCP::Client::HTTP` replaces
+the automatic answer.
 Over stdio, a ping that arrives while a response is awaited is answered inline; between requests it is answered when
 the next request starts reading. The answer is best effort: a pong that cannot be written (for example, over a broken pipe) is
 dropped rather than failing the request whose response is being read. Independently of pings, consider setting `read_timeout:`
 on `MCP::Client::Stdio`, since a server that never answers otherwise holds the read until the process exits.
 
-To answer pings yourself, register `transport.on_server_request("ping")` on `MCP::Client::HTTP`; it replaces
-the automatic answer and, like any handler registered there, opens the standalone GET listening stream on `connect`,
-as described on the [Transports](/client/transports/#server-to-client-requests-elicitation) page.
-
 ## Server Side
 
 How servers answer `ping` requests and ping the client themselves is documented on

docs/_client/transports.md

@@ -59,27 +59,12 @@ The stdio transport automatically handles:
 - Spawning the server process with `Open3.popen3`
 - MCP protocol initialization handshake (`initialize` request + `notifications/initialized`)
 - JSON-RPC 2.0 message framing over newline-delimited JSON
-- Answering server `ping` requests; see [Answering Server Pings](/client/ping/#answering-server-pings)
-
-{: .note }
-> `ping` is the only server-to-client request answered over stdio. A wire-level `elicitation/create`
-> or `sampling/createMessage` is ignored on this transport, so a server that sends one waits for an answer
-> that never comes; use Streamable HTTP for those, as described below. The SEP-2322 `input_required` route,
-> which is how the modern lifecycle asks for the same input, works on every transport, so `on_elicitation`
-> and `on_sampling` handlers still fire over stdio; see [Multi Round-Trip Requests](/client/mrtr/).
 
 ## HTTP Transport Layer
 
 Use the `MCP::Client::HTTP` transport to interact with MCP servers using simple HTTP requests.
 
-You'll need to add `faraday` as a dependency in order to use the HTTP transport layer, and `event_stream_parser`
-to read SSE (`text/event-stream`) responses.
-Whether a response is JSON or SSE is the server's choice, made for each response, and a client must accept both,
-so a client written for arbitrary servers needs both gems. This SDK's own server picks SSE by default and always
-does on the modern lifecycle, and the listening stream that `on_elicitation` and `on_sampling` open is SSE as well.
-`event_stream_parser` is loaded on the first SSE response, so it can be left out only against a server known to
-answer with JSON alone, such as this SDK's server in [JSON response mode](/server/transports/#json-response-mode)
-serving handshake-lifecycle clients, and only while no listening stream is opened:
+You'll need to add `faraday` as a dependency in order to use the HTTP transport layer. Add `event_stream_parser` as well if the server uses SSE (`text/event-stream`) responses:
 
 ```ruby
 gem "mcp"
@@ -248,9 +233,6 @@ http_transport = MCP::Client::HTTP.new(url: "https://api.example.com/mcp") do |f
 end
 ```
 
-The block customizes only the connection to the MCP server. The connection the OAuth flow uses for its own requests is customized through
-the provider's `http_client_customizer:` keyword instead; see [Customizing the OAuth HTTP Client](/client/authorization/#customizing-the-oauth-http-client).
-
 {: .note }
 > Answers to server-to-client requests (a pong, an elicitation result) are POSTed from inside
 > the SSE streaming callback of another response, re-entering the connection on the same thread.

docs/_server/ping.md

@@ -48,5 +48,3 @@ Server-to-client requests are bounded by a timeout on the Streamable HTTP transp
 ## Client Side
 
 Pinging the server with `MCP::Client#ping` is documented on the client [Ping](/client/ping/) page.
-The Ruby client answers the pings sent with `ServerSession#ping` automatically;
-see [Answering Server Pings](/client/ping/#answering-server-pings).

docs/_server/subscriptions.md

@@ -49,13 +49,6 @@ The first SSE event on the stream is the acknowledgement:
 }
 ```
 
-## Delivery Semantics
-
-A stream delivers only the changes that happen after its acknowledgement; it is not a replay log.
-Nothing is queued while no stream is connected, and a dropped stream is gone together with anything it missed.
-Clients fetch the current state after subscribing and treat each notification as a cue to refetch,
-rather than as a payload.
-
 ## Transport Support
 
 The stream is served on the Streamable HTTP modern path; stdio answers `-32601`.

docs/installation.md

@@ -38,16 +38,6 @@ $ gem install mcp
 You may need to add additional dependencies depending on which features you wish to access. For example, the HTTP client transport requires the `faraday` gem:
 
 ```ruby
+gem "mcp"
 gem "faraday", ">= 2.0"
 ```
-
-Reading SSE (`text/event-stream`) responses needs `event_stream_parser` as well.
-Whether a response is JSON or SSE is the server's choice, made for each response, and this SDK's own server picks SSE by default,
-so a client written for arbitrary servers needs both gems:
-
-```ruby
-gem "faraday", ">= 2.0"
-gem "event_stream_parser", ">= 1.0"
-```
-
-The [Transports](/client/transports/#http-transport-layer) page describes the one setup where `faraday` alone is enough.

lib/mcp/client/http.rb

@@ -723,8 +723,7 @@ module MCP
         require_faraday!
         @client ||= Faraday.new(url) do |faraday|
           faraday.request(:json)
-          # The client parses response bodies itself (`resolve_response_body`), so streamed and buffered responses
-          # take the same path; Faraday's json response middleware is deliberately left out.
+          faraday.response(:json)
           faraday.response(:raise_error)
 
           faraday.headers["Accept"] = ACCEPT_HEADER
@@ -1075,8 +1074,8 @@ module MCP
         elsif content_type&.include?("application/json")
           return parse_json_buffer(stream.buffer, method, params) unless stream.buffer.empty?
 
-          # Adapters without `on_data` support deliver the body via `response.body`; a JSON middleware
-          # added by the Faraday customizer may have parsed it already.
+          # Adapters without `on_data` support deliver the body via `response.body`,
+          # already parsed by the json response middleware.
           response.body.is_a?(String) ? parse_json_buffer(response.body, method, params) : response.body
         else
           raise RequestHandlerError.new(

lib/mcp/client/oauth/bounded_body.rb

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ module MCP
         # Faraday `on_data` streaming callback. The chunks arrive decompressed: the default `Net::HTTP` adapter negotiates
         # `Accept-Encoding` itself and reads the body through `Net::HTTPResponse#inflater`, so a small compressed body
         # that expands past the cap is refused partway through the expansion rather than after it. That holds only while
-        # the connection leaves `Accept-Encoding` to the adapter; see `Flow.build_http_client`.
+        # the connection leaves `Accept-Encoding` to the adapter; see `Flow#default_http_client`.
         def on_data
           proc do |chunk, _received_bytes, _env|
             @buffer << chunk

lib/mcp/client/oauth/client_credentials_provider.rb

@@ -37,17 +37,11 @@ module MCP
       #   also take the algorithm as an explicit option).
       # - `scope`   - String of space-separated scopes to request when the server's
       #   `WWW-Authenticate` and the Protected Resource Metadata do not specify one.
-      # - `storage` - Object responding to `tokens`, `save_tokens(tokens)`, `client_information`,
-      #   and `save_client_information(info)`. Defaults to an `InMemoryStorage`.
-      #   The `client_id` / `client_secret` are written into it so the token exchange reads
-      #   them through the same path as a pre-registered authorization-code client.
-      # - `token_request_params` - Hash of String keys and values added to every
-      #   token request this provider makes, for parameters the authorization
-      #   server requires beyond the grant itself (Auth0's `audience`, for example).
-      #   A key in `Flow::RESERVED_TOKEN_REQUEST_PARAMS` raises `Flow::InvalidTokenRequestParamsError`.
-      #   The Hash is copied and frozen. See `StorageBackedProvider#token_request_params`.
-      # - `http_client_customizer` - Callable invoked with the `Faraday::Connection` the flow builds for
-      #   its own requests; see `StorageBackedProvider#http_client_customizer`.
+      # - `storage` - Object responding to `tokens`, `save_tokens(tokens)`,
+      #   `client_information`, and `save_client_information(info)`. Defaults to
+      #   an `InMemoryStorage`. The `client_id` / `client_secret` are written
+      #   into it so the token exchange reads them through the same path as
+      #   a pre-registered authorization-code client.
       class ClientCredentialsProvider
         include StorageBackedProvider
 
@@ -67,9 +61,7 @@ module MCP
           signing_algorithm: nil,
           scope: nil,
           storage: nil,
-          authorization_request_validator: nil,
-          token_request_params: nil,
-          http_client_customizer: nil
+          authorization_request_validator: nil
         )
           if blank?(client_id)
             raise InvalidCredentialsError, "client_id is required for the client_credentials grant."
@@ -107,16 +99,12 @@ module MCP
             client_information["client_secret"] = client_secret
           end
 
-          http_client_customizer = validated_http_client_customizer(http_client_customizer)
-
           @client_id = client_id
           @private_key = private_key
           @signing_algorithm = signing_algorithm
           @scope = scope
           @storage = storage || InMemoryStorage.new
           @authorization_request_validator = authorization_request_validator
-          @token_request_params = frozen_token_request_params(token_request_params)
-          @http_client_customizer = http_client_customizer
           @storage.save_client_information(client_information)
         end
 

lib/mcp/client/oauth/cross_app_access_provider.rb

@@ -25,12 +25,6 @@ module MCP
       #   the Protected Resource Metadata do not specify one.
       # - `storage` - Object responding to `tokens`, `save_tokens(tokens)`, `client_information`, and `save_client_information(info)`.
       #   Defaults to an `InMemoryStorage`.
-      # - `token_request_params` - Hash of String keys and values added to the `jwt-bearer` token request, for parameters
-      #   the authorization server requires beyond the grant itself. A key in `Flow::RESERVED_TOKEN_REQUEST_PARAMS` raises
-      #   `Flow::InvalidTokenRequestParamsError`. The Hash is copied and frozen.
-      #   See `StorageBackedProvider#token_request_params`.
-      # - `http_client_customizer` - Callable invoked with the `Faraday::Connection` the flow builds for its own requests;
-      #   see `StorageBackedProvider#http_client_customizer`.
       #
       # https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/issues/990
       class CrossAppAccessProvider
@@ -41,16 +35,7 @@ module MCP
 
         attr_reader :scope, :storage
 
-        def initialize(
-          client_id:,
-          client_secret:,
-          assertion_provider:,
-          scope: nil,
-          storage: nil,
-          authorization_request_validator: nil,
-          token_request_params: nil,
-          http_client_customizer: nil
-        )
+        def initialize(client_id:, client_secret:, assertion_provider:, scope: nil, storage: nil, authorization_request_validator: nil)
           if blank?(client_id)
             raise InvalidConfigurationError, "client_id is required for the jwt-bearer grant."
           end
@@ -63,14 +48,10 @@ module MCP
             raise InvalidConfigurationError, "assertion_provider must be callable as `call(audience:, resource:)` and return the ID-JAG assertion."
           end
 
-          http_client_customizer = validated_http_client_customizer(http_client_customizer)
-
           @assertion_provider = assertion_provider
           @scope = scope
           @storage = storage || InMemoryStorage.new
           @authorization_request_validator = authorization_request_validator
-          @token_request_params = frozen_token_request_params(token_request_params)
-          @http_client_customizer = http_client_customizer
           @storage.save_client_information(
             "client_id" => client_id,
             "client_secret" => client_secret,

lib/mcp/client/oauth/discovery.rb

@@ -336,29 +336,6 @@ module MCP
             uri.to_s
           end
 
-          # Drops userinfo, query and fragment from `url` and leaves the host and path spelled as given, for reporting
-          # a URL next to the request that failed, where it must still match the server's access log; `URI#to_s`
-          # still lowercases the scheme and drops an explicit default port. Unlike `canonicalize_origin_and_path`
-          # it neither normalizes nor resolves dot segments, so its cost stays linear in the URL length, which matters
-          # for a URL the server chose. A URL that does not parse is not echoed, since the raw value could carry
-          # the very credentials being dropped.
-          def redact_url(url)
-            uri = URI.parse(url.to_s)
-
-            uri.fragment = nil
-            uri.query = nil
-            # `URI::Generic#userinfo=` is a no-op on Ruby 2.7 (the project's minimum supported version),
-            # so clear the components individually.
-            if uri.respond_to?(:user) && (uri.user || uri.password)
-              uri.user = nil
-              uri.password = nil
-            end
-
-            uri.to_s
-          rescue URI::Error
-            "[unparseable URL]"
-          end
-
           # Returns true when `prm` (a PRM `resource` URL) covers `server` (the MCP endpoint URL):
           # same scheme/host/port, with PRM's path being a prefix of the server's path. When PRM
           # also advertises a query string, the server's query MUST be identical to it (otherwise

lib/mcp/client/oauth/flow.rb

@@ -14,38 +14,7 @@ module MCP
       # `Provider`; this class consumes a Provider plus signal data extracted from
       # the failing response (resource_metadata URL, scope challenge).
       class Flow
-        TOKEN_ENDPOINT_ERROR_MAX_LENGTH = 128
-        TOKEN_ENDPOINT_ERROR_DESCRIPTION_MAX_LENGTH = 512
-        METADATA_DIAGNOSTIC_MAX_LENGTH = 128
-        METADATA_URL_MAX_LENGTH = 2048
-
-        # Token request parameters the flow sets itself. Its values win over a provider's `token_request_params`,
-        # so a provider naming one of these is refused rather than left believing its value was sent.
-        RESERVED_TOKEN_REQUEST_PARAMS = [
-          "grant_type",
-          "client_id",
-          "client_secret",
-          "client_assertion",
-          "client_assertion_type",
-          "scope",
-          "resource",
-          "code",
-          "code_verifier",
-          "redirect_uri",
-          "refresh_token",
-          "assertion",
-        ].freeze
-
-        class AuthorizationError < StandardError
-          attr_reader :http_status, :error, :error_description
-
-          def initialize(message = nil, http_status: nil, error: nil, error_description: nil)
-            super(message)
-            @http_status = http_status
-            @error = error
-            @error_description = error_description
-          end
-        end
+        class AuthorizationError < StandardError; end
 
         # Raised specifically when the token endpoint rejects a grant with
         # `error: "invalid_grant"` (RFC 6749 §5.2). Callers use this to
@@ -59,136 +28,6 @@ module MCP
         # or authorization server metadata failure by rescuing a class rather than by matching the message text.
         class AuthorizationRefusedError < AuthorizationError; end
 
-        # Raised by metadata discovery when every candidate URL answered that nothing usable is published there
-        # (a `4xx` other than `429`, a redirect that was not followed, or a body that is not a JSON object).
-        # The only discovery failure that may select the legacy 2025-03-26 path.
-        class MetadataNotPublishedError < AuthorizationError; end
-
-        # Raised by metadata discovery when the answer says nothing about what is published: the request failed to
-        # reach the server, or a candidate answered `5xx` or `429`. Falling back on this would move
-        # the flow to a different authorization server because of a transient failure, so it is surfaced instead,
-        # as the TypeScript SDK does for network errors outside browsers and the Python SDK does for both.
-        class MetadataUnreachableError < AuthorizationError; end
-
-        # Raised for a `token_request_params` value the SDK refuses: a reserved key, a Hash comparing keys by identity,
-        # or anything but a Hash of Strings. An `ArgumentError` because the value is a configuration mistake,
-        # not a failed authorization, and deliberately outside `AuthorizationError`, which `MCP::Client::HTTP` treats on
-        # a failed refresh as a reason to run the interactive flow.
-        class InvalidTokenRequestParamsError < ArgumentError; end
-
-        # Raised by `RequestedOriginGuard` when middleware added through the provider's `http_client_customizer`
-        # would send a request to an origin other than the one the flow validated, or has dropped the record of
-        # the URL the flow asked for. An `ArgumentError` because the middleware is a configuration mistake,
-        # and deliberately outside `AuthorizationError`, which discovery treats as "nothing published"
-        # and `MCP::Client::HTTP` treats on a failed refresh as a reason to run the interactive flow.
-        class DestinationMismatchError < ArgumentError; end
-
-        # Faraday middleware registered on the connection `build_http_client` assembles before the customizer
-        # is invoked, so with the usual `use` it sits ahead of the customizer's middleware and sees the URL exactly
-        # as the flow requested it, which it records on the request environment for `RequestedOriginGuard`.
-        # The guard covers what happens to a request after that record; middleware inserted ahead of it with
-        # `builder.insert(0, ...)` that rewrites the URL before it or rebuilds the environment is outside the guard.
-        # The record lives on the environment, not in `env.request.context`: that slot belongs to the application,
-        # which may fill it on the connection or replace it from a middleware of its own. Only the first URL seen
-        # on an environment is recorded: a middleware inserted ahead of this one that re-enters the stack after
-        # a `3xx` with the same environment, or with its `dup`, which shares the record, cannot replace it with
-        # the redirected URL.
-        class RequestedURLStamp
-          KEY = :mcp_oauth_requested_url
-
-          def initialize(app)
-            @app = app
-          end
-
-          def call(env)
-            env[KEY] ||= env.url.to_s
-            @app.call(env)
-          end
-        end
-
-        # Faraday middleware registered last on that connection, so it sees `env.url` after any customizer-added
-        # middleware has rewritten it or followed a redirect. A request that would leave the origin the flow asked
-        # for is refused before it reaches the adapter, since every destination check ran against the URL as
-        # written; a same-origin change stays with the server those checks admitted. The record survives
-        # the `env.dup` that redirect-following middleware performs, and a request that arrives without it is
-        # refused as well, so a middleware that rebuilds the environment fails closed rather than open.
-        # The origin boundary resembles the one the Python SDK keeps for its own auth requests, which follows
-        # a redirect itself only within the origin; this flow follows none.
-        class RequestedOriginGuard
-          def initialize(app)
-            @app = app
-          end
-
-          def call(env)
-            requested = env[RequestedURLStamp::KEY]
-            unless requested
-              raise DestinationMismatchError, <<~MESSAGE
-                Request to #{Discovery.canonicalize_origin_and_path(env.url.to_s).inspect} carries no record of \
-                the URL the flow asked for; middleware that rebuilds the request environment is refused.
-              MESSAGE
-            end
-
-            unless Discovery.same_origin?(env.url.to_s, requested)
-              raise DestinationMismatchError, <<~MESSAGE
-                Request to #{Discovery.canonicalize_origin_and_path(requested).inspect} would be sent to \
-                #{Discovery.canonicalize_origin_and_path(env.url.to_s).inspect}, on a different origin; \
-                middleware that follows redirects or rewrites URLs is refused.
-              MESSAGE
-            end
-
-            @app.call(env)
-          end
-        end
-        private_constant :RequestedURLStamp, :RequestedOriginGuard
-
-        class << self
-          # Returns why `params` cannot ride a token request as `token_request_params`, or `nil` when it can.
-          # Shared by the provider constructors and the flow, which both refuse the value with `InvalidTokenRequestParamsError`,
-          # so the same problem reads the same wherever it surfaces.
-          def token_request_params_problem(params)
-            return "must be a Hash (got #{params.class})." unless params.is_a?(Hash)
-
-            # Two equal keys are two entries here, which would be sent twice from a provider method
-            # or silently collapse into one when the constructors copy the Hash.
-            return "must not compare keys by identity." if params.compare_by_identity?
-
-            params.each do |key, value|
-              return "keys must be Strings (got #{key.class})." unless key.is_a?(String)
-              return "values must be Strings (got #{value.class} for #{key.inspect})." unless value.is_a?(String)
-              return "must not set #{key.inspect}, which the SDK sets itself." if RESERVED_TOKEN_REQUEST_PARAMS.include?(key)
-            end
-
-            nil
-          end
-
-          # Builds the connection the flow uses for its own requests: the SDK's defaults, `RequestedURLStamp`,
-          # then `customizer` (a provider's `http_client_customizer`, called with the `Faraday::Connection`),
-          # then `RequestedOriginGuard` last so it sees what the customizer's middleware does to each request
-          # after the stamp recorded it. Every request on the connection passes through both, so a caller using
-          # it directly is held to the same origin rule.
-          #
-          # Deliberately built without redirect-following middleware. Every destination check in this class runs
-          # against the URL as written, before the request goes out, so a connection that transparently followed
-          # a `3xx` would let a server reach a host the checks just refused. The guard turns following at
-          # the middleware level into a refusal; following inside an adapter stays invisible, so a customizer must
-          # not enable it.
-          #
-          # `Accept-Encoding` is deliberately left unset. `Net::HTTP::GenericRequest` negotiates it and decodes
-          # the response only while the caller has not claimed that header; assigning it turns `decode_content` off,
-          # which would silently move `BoundedBody`'s cap onto compressed bytes and let a small body expand past it
-          # after the check.
-          def build_http_client(customizer = nil)
-            require "faraday"
-
-            Faraday.new do |faraday|
-              faraday.headers["Accept"] = "application/json"
-              faraday.use(RequestedURLStamp)
-              customizer&.call(faraday)
-              faraday.use(RequestedOriginGuard)
-            end
-          end
-        end
-
         def initialize(provider:, http_client_factory: nil)
           @provider = provider
           @http_client_factory = http_client_factory || -> { default_http_client }
@@ -236,7 +75,7 @@ module MCP
 
           ensure_pkce_supported!(as_metadata)
 
-          effective_scope = resolve_scope(scope: scope, prm: prm)
+          effective_scope = resolve_scope(scope: scope, prm: prm || {})
           effective_scope = normalize_offline_access_scope(effective_scope, as_metadata: as_metadata)
 
           # Asked before registering, not after: a refusal must not leave this client registered at an authorization server
@@ -287,7 +126,7 @@ module MCP
         # Runs the OAuth 2.1 `client_credentials` grant (machine-to-machine, no user interaction) and persists
         # the resulting token. Shares the same discovery and security checks as `run!`; the only difference is
         # the grant exchanged at the token endpoint. There is no PKCE, redirect, or authorization request,
-        # and no `offline_access` augmentation because the grant is not expected to issue a refresh token (OAuth 2.1 Section 4.3.3).
+        # and no `offline_access` augmentation because the grant does not issue a refresh token (OAuth 2.1 Section 4.3.3).
         # The pre-registered `client_id` / `client_secret` come from the provider's stored `client_information`.
         # https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/basic/authorization
         def run_client_credentials!(as_metadata:, prm:, resource:, scope:, server_url:)
@@ -380,22 +219,19 @@ module MCP
         # checks before talking to it.
         #
         # Returns `:refreshed` on success. Raises `AuthorizationError` when the provider has no refresh token, no client information,
-        # when a `client_credentials` or `jwt-bearer` provider's tokens record no issuer,
         # or when the token endpoint refuses the refresh request.
         # https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749#section-6
         def refresh!(server_url:, resource_metadata_url: nil)
           refresh_token = read_token("refresh_token")
           raise AuthorizationError, "Cannot refresh: no refresh_token in provider storage." unless refresh_token
 
-          ensure_refresh_token_issuer_recorded!
-
           stored_client_info = @provider.client_information
           have_stored_client_info = stored_client_info.is_a?(Hash) && client_info_required_value(stored_client_info, "client_id")
 
           # A CIMD-configured provider stores no `client_information` on purpose
           # (the CIMD URL is re-resolved against the live AS metadata on every flow).
           # Allow refresh to proceed in that case so the `refresh_token` obtained via the CIMD flow remains usable.
-          have_cimd_url = !provider_client_id_metadata_document_url.nil?
+          have_cimd_url = !@provider.client_id_metadata_document_url.nil?
 
           unless have_stored_client_info || have_cimd_url
             raise AuthorizationError, "Cannot refresh: no client_information in provider storage."
@@ -431,7 +267,7 @@ module MCP
             ensure_refreshable_client_information!(stored_client_info, as_metadata: as_metadata)
             stored_client_info
           elsif as_metadata["client_id_metadata_document_supported"] == true
-            { "client_id" => provider_client_id_metadata_document_url }
+            { "client_id" => @provider.client_id_metadata_document_url }
           else
             raise AuthorizationError,
               "Cannot refresh: provider has a CIMD URL but the authorization server no longer advertises " \
@@ -483,12 +319,7 @@ module MCP
         #
         # Legacy path (2025-03-26 backwards compatibility): when the server publishes no PRM, `prm` is nil
         # and the MCP server's own origin acts as the authorization base URL, matching the TypeScript and Python SDKs.
-        # Only a discovery answer saying that nothing usable is published (`MetadataNotPublishedError`: a `4xx` other than `429`,
-        # a redirect that was not followed, or a body that is not a JSON object) selects the legacy path.
-        # A request that failed to reach the server, or returned a `5xx` or `429`, says nothing about what the server publishes,
-        # so once no candidate has served a usable document it is surfaced instead (`MetadataUnreachableError`),
-        # as both SDKs do for network errors (the TypeScript SDK outside browsers) and the Python SDK does for server errors.
-        # A body over the response cap is refused outright and never reaches the fallback either.
+        # Any PRM discovery failure (404s, network errors, malformed documents) selects the legacy path, mirroring both SDKs' behavior.
         # https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-26/basic/authorization#fallbacks-for-servers-without-metadata-discovery
         def locate_authorization_server(server_url:, resource_metadata_url:)
           prm = begin
@@ -496,7 +327,7 @@ module MCP
               server_url: server_url,
               resource_metadata_url: resource_metadata_url,
             )
-          rescue MetadataNotPublishedError
+          rescue AuthorizationError
             nil
           end
 
@@ -518,26 +349,16 @@ module MCP
 
         # Fetches and validates the authorization server's RFC 8414 metadata.
         #
-        # The metadata `issuer` must be byte-identical to the discovery URL (RFC 8414 Section 3.3) on both paths.
-        # On the legacy 2025-03-26 path the discovery URL is the MCP server's origin, which that spec names as
-        # the authorization base URL and which a document may render with a trailing slash; the TypeScript and Python SDKs
-        # accept the same slash-only difference. A document naming any other issuer is refused: an unverified `issuer`
-        # would otherwise become the identity tokens and client information are bound to, assertions are minted for,
-        # and the validator is shown, so a server could claim another authorization server and unlock the credentials
-        # bound to it.
+        # On the modern path the metadata `issuer` must be byte-identical to the discovery URL (RFC 8414 Section 3.3).
+        # On the legacy 2025-03-26 path that validation is skipped: the legacy spec predates the requirement,
+        # and a pre-PRM server may host its OAuth endpoints under a path prefix whose `issuer` legitimately differs from
+        # the origin the metadata was discovered at (neither the TypeScript nor the Python SDK validates the issuer on this path).
         # When even the metadata document is absent, the legacy spec's default endpoints are used.
         def authorization_server_metadata(authorization_server:, legacy:, server_url:)
           metadata = if legacy
-            fetched = begin
+            begin
               fetch_authorization_server_metadata(issuer_url: authorization_server)
             rescue AuthorizationError
-              nil
-            end
-
-            if fetched
-              ensure_legacy_issuer_matches!(expected: authorization_server, returned: fetched["issuer"])
-              fetched
-            else
               default_legacy_metadata(authorization_server)
             end
           else
@@ -582,14 +403,6 @@ module MCP
           fetch_metadata_json(urls, label: "authorization server metadata")
         end
 
-        # The legacy authorization base is an origin, which a document may render as `https://host/`;
-        # both name the same server, and nothing else does.
-        def ensure_legacy_issuer_matches!(expected:, returned:)
-          return if returned == "#{expected}/"
-
-          ensure_issuer_matches!(expected: expected, returned: returned)
-        end
-
         # Reads `authorization_servers` from a PRM document and returns
         # the first entry, raising `AuthorizationError` for any of the malformed
         # shapes a non-compliant server could emit (missing field, non-Array
@@ -617,63 +430,44 @@ module MCP
           first
         end
 
-        # Walks candidate metadata URLs and returns the parsed body of the first 2xx response that is a JSON object;
-        # the caller checks its fields. Candidates are tried until one serves such a body, since a later one may still
-        # be usable when an earlier one is broken or down (the URL from `WWW-Authenticate` against the well-known path,
-        # or the OAuth document against the OpenID one). Once the candidates are exhausted, an answer that said nothing
-        # about what is published (a network error, a `5xx`, or a `429`) outranks the rest and raises
-        # `MetadataUnreachableError`; otherwise (any other status, such as a `4xx` other than `429` or a redirect that
-        # was not followed, a body that is not JSON, or not a JSON object) `MetadataNotPublishedError`.
-        # A body over the cap is refused outright by `bounded_request` with a plain `AuthorizationError`,
-        # before any classification. Each failure is listed with its URL stripped of userinfo, query and fragment
-        # and cut to `METADATA_URL_MAX_LENGTH`, but otherwise spelled as requested, so it can be matched against
-        # a server's access log, and with exception text bounded, since the message lands in every log destination
-        # the error passes through.
+        # Walks candidate metadata URLs and returns the parsed JSON body of
+        # the first 2xx response. Raises `AuthorizationError` for transport
+        # failures (`Faraday::Error`) and malformed bodies (`JSON::ParserError`)
+        # so callers do not have to handle raw Faraday/JSON exceptions.
         def fetch_metadata_json(urls, label:)
-          failures = []
-          inconclusive = false
+          last_error = nil
           urls.each do |url|
             response = begin
               http_get(url)
             rescue Faraday::Error => e
-              detail = bounded_diagnostic(e.message, limit: METADATA_DIAGNOSTIC_MAX_LENGTH)
-              failures << "GET #{reported_url(url)} raised #{[e.class, detail].compact.join(": ")}"
-              inconclusive = true
+              last_error = "GET #{url} raised #{e.class}: #{e.message}"
               next
             end
 
-            unless response.status >= 200 && response.status < 300
-              failures << "GET #{reported_url(url)} returned #{response.status}"
-              inconclusive = true if response.status >= 500 || response.status == 429
-              next
+            if response.status >= 200 && response.status < 300
+              parsed = begin
+                JSON.parse(response_body_string(response))
+              rescue JSON::ParserError => e
+                raise AuthorizationError, "Failed to parse #{label} from #{url}: #{e.message}."
+              end
+
+              # Even valid JSON can be the wrong shape (a top-level array,
+              # a bare `null`, a string, ...). The discovery callers index by
+              # name (`prm["authorization_servers"]`, etc.), so anything that
+              # is not a Hash would raise `TypeError` / `NoMethodError`
+              # downstream. Surface that as `AuthorizationError` instead so
+              # callers see a single, documented error type.
+              unless parsed.is_a?(Hash)
+                raise AuthorizationError,
+                  "#{label} from #{url} is not a JSON object (got #{parsed.class})."
+              end
+
+              return parsed
             end
 
-            parsed = begin
-              JSON.parse(response_body_string(response))
-            rescue JSON::ParserError => e
-              detail = bounded_diagnostic(e.message, limit: METADATA_DIAGNOSTIC_MAX_LENGTH) || e.class.name
-              failures << "GET #{reported_url(url)} returned a body that is not JSON: #{detail}"
-              next
-            end
-
-            # Even valid JSON can be the wrong shape (a top-level array, a bare `null`, a string, ...).
-            # The discovery callers index by name (`prm["authorization_servers"]`, etc.), so anything that
-            # is not a Hash would raise `TypeError` / `NoMethodError` downstream.
-            unless parsed.is_a?(Hash)
-              failures << "GET #{reported_url(url)} returned a body that is not a JSON object (got #{parsed.class})"
-              next
-            end
-
-            return parsed
-          end
-
-          message = "Failed to fetch #{label}: #{failures.join("; ")}."
-
-          if inconclusive
-            raise MetadataUnreachableError, message
-          else
-            raise MetadataNotPublishedError, message
+            last_error = "GET #{url} returned #{response.status}"
           end
+          raise AuthorizationError, "Failed to fetch #{label}: #{last_error}."
         end
 
         def ensure_pkce_supported!(as_metadata)
@@ -834,7 +628,7 @@ module MCP
           # (or the operator may rotate the CIMD URL), and a stale `client_information` entry would otherwise
           # keep sending the old CIMD URL forever. Re-evaluating on every flow re-reads the current AS metadata
           # and the current `provider.client_id_metadata_document_url`.
-          cimd_url = provider_client_id_metadata_document_url
+          cimd_url = @provider.client_id_metadata_document_url
           if cimd_url && as_metadata["client_id_metadata_document_supported"] == true
             return { "client_id" => cimd_url }
           end
@@ -964,18 +758,6 @@ module MCP
           MESSAGE
         end
 
-        # `Provider` tolerates tokens stored before the issuer was recorded (see `ensure_token_issuer!`).
-        # The `client_credentials` and `jwt-bearer` providers have no such tokens, since their refresh is new,
-        # and a refresh asks no validator, so a token without an `issuer` would be presented to whatever
-        # authorization server discovery names now. Refusing it sends the transport back through the grant,
-        # which does ask.
-        def ensure_refresh_token_issuer_recorded!
-          return if provider_authorization_flow == :authorization_code
-          return unless read_token("issuer").nil?
-
-          raise AuthorizationError, "Cannot refresh: the stored tokens record no issuer; re-authorization is required."
-        end
-
         def ensure_refreshable_client_information!(client_info, as_metadata:)
           stored_issuer = client_info_required_value(client_info, "issuer")
           return if stored_issuer.nil?
@@ -1104,8 +886,7 @@ module MCP
         def resolve_scope(scope:, prm:)
           return scope if scope && !scope.empty?
 
-          # `prm` is nil on the legacy path, where nothing advertises scopes.
-          supported = prm && prm["scopes_supported"]
+          supported = prm["scopes_supported"]
           return supported.join(" ") if supported.is_a?(Array) && !supported.empty?
 
           return @provider.scope if @provider.scope && !@provider.scope.empty?
@@ -1167,31 +948,6 @@ module MCP
           @provider.authorization_flow
         end
 
-        # Parameters the provider adds to every token request it makes (RFC 6749 Section 8.2 leaves room for them;
-        # Auth0's `audience` is the usual one). Duck-typed like `authorization_flow`, so a provider without the method,
-        # or one returning `nil`, adds nothing.
-        # A bad value raises `InvalidTokenRequestParamsError`, as the provider constructors do.
-        def provider_token_request_params
-          return {} unless @provider.respond_to?(:token_request_params)
-
-          params = @provider.token_request_params
-          return {} if params.nil?
-
-          problem = self.class.token_request_params_problem(params)
-          raise InvalidTokenRequestParamsError, "The provider's token_request_params #{problem}" if problem
-
-          params
-        end
-
-        # The Client ID Metadata Document URL, when the provider has one. Only `Provider` exposes the reader
-        # (CIMD replaces Dynamic Client Registration on the authorization-code flow), while `refresh!` serves
-        # every provider that holds a `refresh_token`, so the read is duck-typed like `authorization_flow`.
-        def provider_client_id_metadata_document_url
-          return unless @provider.respond_to?(:client_id_metadata_document_url)
-
-          @provider.client_id_metadata_document_url
-        end
-
         def build_authorization_url(as_metadata:, client_id:, scope:, state:, code_challenge:, resource:)
           authorization_endpoint = as_metadata["authorization_endpoint"]
           unless authorization_endpoint
@@ -1241,12 +997,9 @@ module MCP
           post_to_token_endpoint(as_metadata: as_metadata, client_info: client_info, form: form)
         end
 
-        # Submits a form-encoded token request using the authentication method
-        # stored in `client_information`. The method determines whether client
-        # credentials belong in the form body, a Basic header, or a JWT assertion.
-        # A provider's `token_request_params` go underneath the flow's own parameters,
-        # which therefore win, and are refused before the request is sent when they name
-        # a reserved parameter or are not a Hash of Strings.
+        # Submits a form-encoded request to the token endpoint, applying
+        # the client authentication method advertised in `client_information` and
+        # adding `client_id` (and `client_secret` when not using HTTP Basic).
         def post_to_token_endpoint(as_metadata:, client_info:, form:)
           client_id = client_info_required_value(client_info, "client_id")
           unless client_id
@@ -1256,15 +1009,13 @@ module MCP
 
           client_secret = client_info_required_value(client_info, "client_secret")
           token_endpoint_auth_method = client_info_value(client_info, "token_endpoint_auth_method")
-          form = provider_token_request_params.merge(form)
 
-          # Apply one client authentication method per request (RFC 6749 Section 2.3).
-          headers = {}
-          form = case token_endpoint_auth_method
-          when "private_key_jwt"
-            # The assertion identifies the client through its `iss` and `sub`
-            # claims, so the body needs no separate `client_id` (RFC 7521 Section 4.2).
-            # Use the issuer already checked by `ensure_issuer_matches!` as the audience.
+          form = if token_endpoint_auth_method == "private_key_jwt"
+            # RFC 7523 Section 2.2 JWT client assertion for the `private_key_jwt` method of
+            # the `io.modelcontextprotocol/oauth-client-credentials` extension (SEP-1046).
+            # The client identity travels in the assertion's `iss`/`sub` claims, so `client_id` is
+            # omitted from the body per RFC 7521 Section 4.2 (the `client_assertion` conveys the client identity).
+            # The audience is the issuer identifier that `ensure_issuer_matches!` already byte-validated.
             unless @provider.respond_to?(:client_assertion)
               raise AuthorizationError,
                 "token_endpoint_auth_method is private_key_jwt but the provider does not " \
@@ -1275,24 +1026,22 @@ module MCP
               "client_assertion_type" => JWTClientAssertion::ASSERTION_TYPE,
               "client_assertion" => @provider.client_assertion(audience: as_metadata["issuer"]),
             )
-          when "client_secret_post"
-            # Send the client ID and available secret in the form body.
-            body = form.merge("client_id" => client_id)
-            body["client_secret"] = client_secret if client_secret
-            body
           else
-            if client_secret && token_endpoint_auth_method != "none"
-              # Basic is also the fallback when a secret is present but no method
-              # is stored. A body `client_id` is optional (RFC 6749 Section 3.2.1);
-              # omit it because some servers treat it alongside Basic as a second
-              # authentication method and reject the request with `invalid_request`.
-              headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + basic_auth_credentials(client_id, client_secret)
-              form
+            form.merge("client_id" => client_id)
+          end
+
+          headers = {}
+          if client_secret
+            case token_endpoint_auth_method
+            when "client_secret_post"
+              form["client_secret"] = client_secret
+            when "none"
+              # Public client; no credential.
             else
-              # With `none` or no secret, identify the client using `client_id`.
-              # This is required for unauthenticated authorization-code exchanges
-              # (RFC 6749 Section 3.2.1).
-              form.merge("client_id" => client_id)
+              # RFC 6749 §2.3.1 recommends Basic for confidential clients and
+              # both Python and TypeScript SDKs default here when
+              # the authentication method is not explicitly stored.
+              headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + basic_auth_credentials(client_id, client_secret)
             end
           end
 
@@ -1310,7 +1059,11 @@ module MCP
           end
 
           if response.status < 200 || response.status >= 300
-            raise token_endpoint_error(response)
+            if token_endpoint_error_code(response) == "invalid_grant"
+              raise InvalidGrantError, "Token endpoint rejected the grant: invalid_grant."
+            end
+
+            raise AuthorizationError, "Token endpoint returned status #{response.status}."
           end
 
           parsed = begin
@@ -1331,41 +1084,17 @@ module MCP
           parsed
         end
 
-        # Surface only RFC 6749 §5.2 diagnostic fields, never the raw response,
-        # which may contain tokens or other credentials. Classify the original
-        # code so sanitization cannot turn malformed input into invalid_grant.
-        def token_endpoint_error(response)
-          message = "Token endpoint returned status #{response.status}."
-          error_class = AuthorizationError
-          parsed = JSON.parse(response_body_string(response))
-          parsed = {} unless parsed.is_a?(Hash)
+        # Extracts the `error` code from an RFC 6749 §5.2 error response body
+        # when one is parseable. Returns nil on any parse failure or when
+        # the body is not JSON.
+        def token_endpoint_error_code(response)
+          body = response_body_string(response).to_s
+          return if body.empty?
 
-          error_class = parsed["error"] == "invalid_grant" ? InvalidGrantError : AuthorizationError
-          error = bounded_diagnostic(parsed["error"], limit: TOKEN_ENDPOINT_ERROR_MAX_LENGTH)
-          description = bounded_diagnostic(parsed["error_description"], limit: TOKEN_ENDPOINT_ERROR_DESCRIPTION_MAX_LENGTH)
-          message += " #{[error, description].compact.join(": ")}" if error || description
-
-          error_class.new(message, http_status: response.status, error: error, error_description: description)
-        rescue StandardError
-          # Diagnostics must not mask the endpoint failure or change refresh recovery.
-          error_class.new("Token endpoint returned status #{response.status}.", http_status: response.status)
-        end
-
-        def bounded_diagnostic(value, limit:)
-          return unless value.is_a?(String)
-
-          # RFC 6749 permits printable ASCII except double quotes and backslashes in token endpoint error fields.
-          # Replace other characters to keep text received off the network on one log line.
-          value = value.scrub(" ").gsub(/[^\x20-\x21\x23-\x5B\x5D-\x7E]/, " ").strip
-          return if value.empty?
-
-          value.length > limit ? "#{value[0, limit - 3]}..." : value
-        end
-
-        # A candidate URL as it goes into a failure string: redacted, and cut so a URL the server chose cannot
-        # grow the message without limit.
-        def reported_url(url)
-          bounded_diagnostic(Discovery.redact_url(url), limit: METADATA_URL_MAX_LENGTH)
+          parsed = JSON.parse(body)
+          parsed["error"] if parsed.is_a?(Hash)
+        rescue JSON::ParserError
+          nil
         end
 
         # Per RFC 6749 Section 2.3.1, the `client_id` and `client_secret` MUST be
@@ -1433,18 +1162,22 @@ module MCP
           @http_client ||= @http_client_factory.call
         end
 
-        # A connection supplied through `http_client_factory:` replaces this one, the provider's customizer and
-        # `RequestedOriginGuard` included, so that caller takes on the redirect responsibility described on
-        # `build_http_client`; `bounded_request` caps its responses all the same.
+        # Deliberately built without redirect-following middleware. Every destination check in
+        # this class runs against the URL as written, before the request goes out, so a connection
+        # that transparently followed a `3xx` would let a server reach a host the checks just refused.
+        # A caller passing `http_client_factory:` takes on that responsibility: add redirect following here
+        # and the guards above only cover the first hop.
+        #
+        # `Accept-Encoding` is deliberately left unset. `Net::HTTP::GenericRequest` negotiates it and decodes
+        # the response only while the caller has not claimed that header; assigning it turns `decode_content` off,
+        # which would silently move `BoundedBody`'s cap onto compressed bytes and let a small body expand past it
+        # after the check.
         def default_http_client
-          self.class.build_http_client(provider_http_client_customizer)
-        end
+          require "faraday"
 
-        # `nil` for a provider that predates the hook or leaves it unset.
-        def provider_http_client_customizer
-          return unless @provider.respond_to?(:http_client_customizer)
-
-          @provider.http_client_customizer
+          Faraday.new do |faraday|
+            faraday.headers["Accept"] = "application/json"
+          end
         end
 
         def response_body_string(response)

lib/mcp/client/oauth/id_jag_token_exchange.rb

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ module MCP
             assertion
           end
 
-          # `Accept-Encoding` is deliberately left unset, for the same reason as `Flow.build_http_client`:
+          # `Accept-Encoding` is deliberately left unset, for the same reason as `Flow#default_http_client`:
           # claiming that header turns Net::HTTP's `decode_content` off and would move `BoundedBody`'s cap
           # onto compressed bytes.
           def default_http_client

lib/mcp/client/oauth/provider.rb

@@ -48,13 +48,6 @@ module MCP
       #   The document served at the URL is a separate JSON artifact from the `client_metadata` keyword:
       #   DCR `client_metadata` MUST NOT include `client_id`, while the CIMD document MUST include `client_id` set
       #   to the URL, `client_name`, and `redirect_uris` covering `redirect_uri`.
-      # - `token_request_params` - Hash of String keys and values added to every token request this provider makes
-      #   (the authorization code exchange and refresh), for parameters the authorization server requires beyond
-      #   the grant itself. The authorization request is not affected. A key in `Flow::RESERVED_TOKEN_REQUEST_PARAMS`
-      #   raises `Flow::InvalidTokenRequestParamsError`.
-      #   The Hash is copied and frozen. See `StorageBackedProvider#token_request_params`.
-      # - `http_client_customizer` - Callable invoked with the `Faraday::Connection` the flow builds for
-      #   its own requests; see `StorageBackedProvider#http_client_customizer`.
       class Provider
         include StorageBackedProvider
 
@@ -94,9 +87,7 @@ module MCP
           scope: nil,
           storage: nil,
           client_id_metadata_document_url: nil,
-          authorization_request_validator: nil,
-          token_request_params: nil,
-          http_client_customizer: nil
+          authorization_request_validator: nil
         )
           unless Discovery.secure_url?(redirect_uri)
             raise InsecureRedirectURIError,
@@ -118,8 +109,6 @@ module MCP
                 "per the MCP authorization specification and `draft-ietf-oauth-client-id-metadata-document`."
           end
 
-          http_client_customizer = validated_http_client_customizer(http_client_customizer)
-
           @client_metadata = client_metadata
           @redirect_uri = redirect_uri
           @redirect_handler = redirect_handler
@@ -128,8 +117,6 @@ module MCP
           @storage = storage || InMemoryStorage.new
           @client_id_metadata_document_url = client_id_metadata_document_url
           @authorization_request_validator = authorization_request_validator
-          @token_request_params = frozen_token_request_params(token_request_params)
-          @http_client_customizer = http_client_customizer
         end
 
         # Identifies the OAuth flow this provider drives.

lib/mcp/client/oauth/storage_backed_provider.rb

@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ module MCP
   class Client
     module OAuth
       # Shared token/credential persistence for the OAuth provider classes
-      # (`Provider` for the authorization-code flow, `ClientCredentialsProvider`
-      # for the client_credentials flow, and `CrossAppAccessProvider` for the jwt-bearer flow).
-      # The grants differ in how they authenticate, but all read and write the same two pieces of state
-      # through a `storage` object: the token response and the client information. This module supplies
-      # that delegation so the `Flow` orchestrator can treat any provider uniformly.
+      # (`Provider` for the authorization-code flow and `ClientCredentialsProvider`
+      # for the client_credentials flow). The two grants differ in how they authenticate,
+      # but both read and write the same two pieces of state through a `storage` object:
+      # the token response and the client information. This module supplies that delegation
+      # so the `Flow` orchestrator can treat any provider uniformly.
       #
       # Including classes must set `@storage` to an object responding to `tokens`,
       # `save_tokens(tokens)`, `client_information`, and `save_client_information(info)`
@@ -21,20 +21,6 @@ module MCP
         # MCP SDK has today.
         attr_reader :authorization_request_validator
 
-        # Optional Hash of String keys and values added to every token request the provider makes, for parameters
-        # the authorization server requires beyond the grant itself (RFC 6749 Section 8.2 leaves room for them;
-        # Auth0's `audience` is the usual one). `nil` (the default) adds nothing.
-        # Set through `frozen_token_request_params`, which refuses a key `Flow` sets itself or a wrongly shaped value
-        # with `Flow::InvalidTokenRequestParamsError`.
-        attr_reader :token_request_params
-
-        # Optional callable invoked with the `Faraday::Connection` the flow builds for its own requests,
-        # after the SDK's defaults and before its origin guard (see `Flow.build_http_client`), so an application can
-        # add middleware to discovery, registration, and token requests or swap their adapter. `nil` (the default)
-        # keeps the default connection. The transport's own connection and customizer block never serve these requests:
-        # they are bound to the MCP server URL and carry headers meant for that server.
-        attr_reader :http_client_customizer
-
         def access_token
           tokens&.dig("access_token") || tokens&.dig(:access_token)
         end
@@ -58,29 +44,6 @@ module MCP
         def clear_tokens!
           @storage.save_tokens(nil)
         end
-
-        private
-
-        # Constructors call this before writing to `storage`, so a rejected provider leaves it untouched.
-        # The copy has its own frozen keys and values, so a later change to the caller's Hash, to a key,
-        # or to a value cannot alter what is sent to the token endpoint. Keys are copied explicitly
-        # because `Hash` copies and freezes only keys whose class is exactly `String`.
-        def frozen_token_request_params(params)
-          return if params.nil?
-
-          problem = Flow.token_request_params_problem(params)
-          raise Flow::InvalidTokenRequestParamsError, "token_request_params #{problem}" if problem
-
-          params.each_with_object({}) { |(key, value), copy| copy[key.dup.freeze] = value.dup.freeze }.freeze
-        end
-
-        # Returns `customizer` when it is `nil` or callable and raises otherwise, so a connection object passed
-        # in place of a callable fails at construction rather than at the first `401`.
-        def validated_http_client_customizer(customizer)
-          return customizer if customizer.nil? || customizer.respond_to?(:call)
-
-          raise ArgumentError, "http_client_customizer must respond to call (got #{customizer.class})."
-        end
       end
     end
   end

lib/mcp/icon.rb

@@ -1,35 +1,13 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module MCP
-  # An icon attached to a server, tool, prompt, or resource, per the specification's `Icon` type:
-  # https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/basic#icons
-  #
-  # Each argument is checked against the schema's type, as the TypeScript and Python SDKs check theirs,
-  # so an icon that would serialize into something a client rejects fails here instead. What a value means
-  # is not judged: `src` may be any non-empty `String` (the schema types it as a URI, which an empty `String`
-  # is not, and the specification allows an HTTP/HTTPS URL or a `data:` URI), and a size may be any `String`
-  # (the specification expects `WxH` or `"any"`).
   class Icon
     SUPPORTED_THEMES = ["light", "dark"].freeze
 
     attr_reader :mime_type, :sizes, :src, :theme
 
-    def initialize(mime_type: nil, sizes: nil, src:, theme: nil)
-      unless src.is_a?(String) && !src.empty?
-        raise ArgumentError, "The value of src must be a non-empty String (got #{src.class})."
-      end
-
-      unless mime_type.nil? || mime_type.is_a?(String)
-        raise ArgumentError, "The value of mime_type must be a String (got #{mime_type.class})."
-      end
-
-      if (problem = sizes_problem(sizes))
-        raise ArgumentError, "The value of sizes must be an Array of Strings such as [\"48x48\"] or [\"any\"] (#{problem})."
-      end
-
-      unless theme.nil? || SUPPORTED_THEMES.include?(theme)
-        raise ArgumentError, 'The value of theme must specify "light" or "dark".'
-      end
+    def initialize(mime_type: nil, sizes: nil, src: nil, theme: nil)
+      raise ArgumentError, 'The value of theme must specify "light" or "dark".' if theme && !SUPPORTED_THEMES.include?(theme)
 
       @mime_type = mime_type
       @sizes = sizes
@@ -40,16 +18,5 @@ module MCP
     def to_h
       { mimeType: mime_type, sizes: sizes, src: src, theme: theme }.compact
     end
-
-    private
-
-    def sizes_problem(sizes)
-      return if sizes.nil?
-      return "got #{sizes.class}" unless sizes.is_a?(Array)
-
-      index = sizes.index { |size| !size.is_a?(String) }
-
-      "got #{sizes[index].class} inside the Array" if index
-    end
   end
 end

lib/mcp/tool.rb

@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ module MCP
           raise ArgumentError, "Tool names should be between 1 and 128 characters in length (inclusive)."
         end
 
-        unless tool_name.match?(/\A[A-Za-z\d_\-.]+\z/)
+        unless tool_name.match?(/\A[A-Za-z\d_\-\.]+\z/)
           raise ArgumentError, <<~MESSAGE
             Tool names only allowed characters: uppercase and lowercase ASCII letters (A-Z, a-z), digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-), and dot (.).
           MESSAGE

lib/mcp/version.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module MCP
-  VERSION = "1.5.1"
+  VERSION = "1.5.0"
 end