## Motivation and Context
The MCP Streamable HTTP specification allows servers to return POST responses as either
`text/event-stream` (SSE) or `application/json`:
> If the input is a JSON-RPC request, the server MUST either return `Content-Type: text/event-stream`,
> to initiate an SSE stream, or `Content-Type: application/json`, to return one JSON object.
See: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/basic/transports#sending-messages-to-the-server
The TypeScript and Python SDKs support a configurable JSON response mode
via `enableJsonResponse` / `is_json_response_enabled`.
JSON response mode is suitable for simple tool servers that do not need server-initiated requests.
It avoids SSE framing overhead and returns a single JSON object for the POST response.
## Behavior
- POST responses use `Content-Type: application/json` and return a single JSON object.
- The POST `Accept` header requirement is relaxed to `application/json` only
(matching the Python SDK's lenient behavior).
- Request-scoped notifications (`progress`, `log`) cannot ride along with the single-object response
and are silently dropped.
- Session-scoped standalone notifications (`resources/updated`, `elicitation/complete`)
and broadcast notifications (`tools/list_changed`, etc.) continue to flow to clients connected
to the GET SSE stream.
- All server-to-client requests (`sampling/createMessage`, `roots/list`, `elicitation/create`)
raise an error in JSON response mode.
- Combines with `stateless: true` for simple single-response servers without session tracking.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Added tests for JSON response mode:
- POST request returns `application/json` response
- Accept header validation requires only `application/json`
- Returns 406 when Accept header is missing
- Accepts wildcard `*/*` in Accept header
- Request-scoped notifications (progress, log) during tool execution are silently dropped
- Request-scoped notifications do not leak to GET SSE even when connected
- Session-scoped standalone notifications are delivered via GET SSE
- Broadcast notifications are delivered via GET SSE
- `send_request` raises for `sampling/createMessage`, `roots/list`, `elicitation/create`
- Combined with `stateless: true`: POST returns JSON without a session ID, GET returns 405
## Breaking Changes
None. JSON response mode is opt-in via `enable_json_response: true`.
The default behavior (SSE responses) is unchanged.
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