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fix(auth): ignore non-metadata JSON when probing for protected resource metadata (#1204)
* fix(auth): ignore non-metadata JSON when probing for protected resource metadata

The base URL is probed first when looking for RFC 9728 protected resource
metadata, and any 200 there is taken to mean "this URL is the metadata
document". Every field of ResourceServerMetadata is optional, so an unrelated
JSON object deserializes into an all-None value and validation then fails hard
with "Protected resource metadata missing required resource field". The error
propagates out of resolve_metadata, so the .well-known fallbacks never run.

Servers that answer GET / with a JSON health payload hit this even when they
publish valid metadata at both well-known locations.

Treat a parsed document that carries none of resource, authorization_server or
authorization_servers as a soft failure, the same way this function already
treats a non-200 status and a body that is not JSON. A document carrying any of
those fields still goes through validate_resource_metadata_resource unchanged.

This is the JSON-object half of #810, which made a non-JSON body at the base URL
a soft failure for the same reason.

* fix(auth): stop a 200 from the resource ending metadata discovery

probe_resource_metadata_url treats any 200 as "this url is the metadata
document". That holds for the .well-known candidates it is called with in the
loop, and not for the first call, which is passed the resource itself. RFC 9728
publishes the document at the well-known URI and advertises it through the
resource_metadata parameter of a WWW-Authenticate challenge, so a 200 from the
resource is the resource answering and nothing more.

Because that first probe returned Some(base_url), discovery ended before the
.well-known candidates were tried, and a valid document published there was
never reached. Rejecting the body later could not recover it: by then the
candidates had already been skipped.

Split the first probe into probe_resource_endpoint_for_challenge, which reads
only the 401 branch. The .well-known probe keeps its behaviour.

The check added in the previous commit stays. A .well-known url can also answer
200 with something that is not a metadata document, and every field of
ResourceServerMetadata being optional makes that deserialize into an all-None
value that then fails validation fatally.

resolve_metadata_reaches_the_well_known_document_past_a_non_metadata_base_url
asserts the well-known url is actually requested; without this change it fails
with the base url requested twice and the protected-resource candidate never
probed. resolve_metadata_ignores_a_well_known_url_that_is_not_a_metadata_document
covers the remaining guard; without it the run ends in the original
"Protected resource metadata missing required resource field".

* fix(auth): keep trying the well-known candidates past a non-metadata document

discover_resource_metadata_url returned the first .well-known candidate that
answered 200 and left the loop; the document itself was fetched afterwards,
outside the loop. A candidate answering 200 with something that is not metadata
is only recognised at that point, by which time the remaining candidates have
been skipped and discovery gives up with nothing.

The probe already had the body in hand and threw it away, so the winning
candidate was requested twice. Read the body where the candidate is probed
instead: a candidate that is not the document costs one request and the loop
moves on to the next one, and the candidate that is the document is requested
once.

The second half of the old function, which walks the authorization servers a
document names, is unchanged; it now takes the document as an argument so the
challenge path keeps sharing it.

resolve_metadata_tries_the_next_well_known_candidate_past_a_non_metadata_document
covers the loop; without this change the second candidate is never requested and
the run ends on the issuer of an authorization server it was never meant to
reach.

* fix(auth): report an advertised url that is not the metadata document

A WWW-Authenticate challenge naming a resource_metadata url is the server
saying the document is there. The previous commits made a document carrying
neither resource nor an authorization server reference a soft failure
everywhere, which on that path drops out of resolve_metadata_from_challenge,
continues with authorization server discovery and settles on the legacy
endpoints, silently losing the RFC 8707 resource binding the document was
supposed to carry. Before those commits it surfaced as
"Protected resource metadata missing required resource field".

Where the url came from decides what that document means. A .well-known
candidate is a guess, so its answer only rules out that candidate and the loop
goes on. An advertised url has no better alternative to move on to, so say what
the server got wrong instead of degrading quietly.

Reading a non-200 or a body that is not JSON stays a soft failure on both
paths.

resolve_metadata_from_challenge_reports_an_advertised_url_without_metadata
covers the challenge path; without this change it resolves to
LegacyEndpointFallback.

* fix(auth): let a candidate fail validation without ending discovery

parse_resource_metadata decides what a body that is not the metadata document
means from where the url came from, and it decides it on the presence of
resource, authorization_server and authorization_servers alone. What comes
after is fatal whatever the origin: validate_resource_metadata_resource
rejects a missing resource, a resource that is not a URL, one carrying a
fragment, and one that does not match the base url, and each of those
propagates out of resolve_metadata.

A .well-known candidate handled by a catch-all route reaches it. The
{"error":"not_found","resource":"/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"} such
a route answers with carries resource, so the presence check lets it through,
and the relative path then fails to parse as a URL. That is the shape this
branch opened on, one field further along: the remaining candidates are
skipped, authorization server discovery is skipped, and the run ends on an
error instead of the legacy endpoints.

Read the body and validate it in the same place, now read_resource_metadata,
so the origin governing the first decision governs the second one as well. A
guess that fails validation rules out that candidate and the loop goes on; an
advertised url still reports what the server got wrong.
authorization_metadata_from_resource_metadata takes a document that has
already been accepted.

resolve_metadata_tries_the_next_well_known_candidate_past_an_unusable_document
covers it; without this change it fails with "Protected resource metadata
resource field is not a valid URL".

* fix(auth): keep probing the candidates when an advertised url answers nothing

An advertised url reading a non-200 or a body that is not JSON is a soft
failure: the server said the document is at that url and nothing is being
served there, which rules out the url and not the document. The .well-known
candidates are derived from the base url rather than from that pointer, so
they are still worth probing, but the pointer was read ahead of the loop and
returned out of discover_resource_metadata either way. A challenge naming
https://host/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource that 404s takes the run
straight to authorization server discovery, while the document sits unread on
https://host/mcp/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

Fall through to the loop instead. Carrying on past a candidate's own 401
already let one url be requested twice, because the pointer that challenge
names can be a later candidate of the same run, and it is requested again when
the loop reaches it; not returning on the first pointer adds the same overlap.
Keep the urls this run has requested and skip the ones already read.

resolve_metadata_probes_the_candidates_past_an_advertised_url_that_is_not_served
covers the fall-through; without it the run reaches the authorization server
metadata of a server it was never pointed at.
resolve_metadata_requests_an_advertised_url_that_is_also_a_candidate_once
covers the repeat.

* fix(auth): walk an authorization server named by both fields once

A protected resource metadata document can name its authorization server in
authorization_servers, and servers written against the earlier draft also fill
the singular authorization_server. Filling both with the same value is common,
and the two are concatenated into the candidate list unfiltered, so every
well-known form of that one server's discovery url is requested twice before
the walk gives up on it.

well_known_paths already keeps its candidates distinct. Do the same here,
comparing the trimmed value the loop goes on to use.

resolve_metadata_requests_an_authorization_server_named_twice_once covers it;
without this change the discovery url is requested twice.

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Co-authored-by: easyinplay <easyinplay@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-12 11:21:03 -04:00
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rmcp fix(auth): ignore non-metadata JSON when probing for protected resource metadata (#1204) 2026-09-12 11:21:03 -04:00
rmcp-macros chore: release v3.3.0 (#1252) 2026-09-10 11:23:32 -04:00