Implement the MCP Streamable HTTP transport server-side under spec revision 2026-07-28 (single POST endpoint, no sessions, no GET stream)
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Expose ONE MCP endpoint path (e.g. https://example.com/mcp) that supports HTTP POST only. Every JSON-RPC message from the client is its own new POST.
Reject requests whose Accept header does not list BOTH application/json and text/event-stream — clients MUST send both.
Validate the Origin header on every incoming connection to prevent DNS rebinding. If Origin is present and invalid, respond HTTP 403 Forbidden; the body MAY be a JSON-RPC error response with no id.
When running locally, bind only to 127.0.0.1, not 0.0.0.0.
If the POST body is a JSON-RPC notification and you accept it, return HTTP 202 Accepted with no body; if you cannot accept it, return an HTTP error status such as 400.
If the POST body is a JSON-RPC request, respond with EITHER Content-Type: application/json (a single JSON object) OR Content-Type: text/event-stream (an SSE stream scoped to that one request). Clients must support both, so pick per request.
On an SSE response stream you MAY send notifications/progress and notifications/message that relate to the originating request, then the final JSON-RPC response, which SHOULD terminate the stream.
Never send an independent JSON-RPC *request* on that stream. Server-to-client interactions (sampling, elicitation, roots) are embedded in results as InputRequiredResult per MRTR (SEP-2322) instead.
Set X-Accel-Buffering: no on SSE responses so reverse proxies such as nginx do not buffer events.
On long-lived streams, periodically emit an SSE comment line (a line starting with a colon, e.g. ':\r\n') as a keep-alive so intermediaries do not drop the connection.
Treat closure of the SSE response stream as cancellation of that request: stop work as soon as practical and send no further messages for it.
Respond 405 Method Not Allowed to HTTP GET or DELETE on the MCP endpoint — the GET stream endpoint and session termination via DELETE were removed in this revision.
Verify against the spec page before shipping: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/basic/transports/streamable-http
Known gotchas
BREAKING vs 2025-03-26 through 2025-11-25: protocol-level sessions are gone. A 2026-07-28-only server MUST ignore an inbound Mcp-Session-Id header and MUST NOT mint or echo session IDs. Code ported from a 2025-11-25 SDK will still try to establish a session.
BREAKING: the standalone GET SSE stream is removed. Old clients that open GET /mcp to receive server-initiated messages must get 405 Method Not Allowed.
BREAKING: 'Resumable SSE streams via Last-Event-ID are not supported.' Ignore a Last-Event-ID header. If a stream breaks the in-flight request is lost and the client must re-issue it as a NEW request with a new JSON-RPC id — there is no redelivery.
BREAKING: servers MUST NOT initiate JSON-RPC requests at all. If you still emit sampling/createMessage or elicitation/create as standalone requests on an SSE stream, modern clients will not answer them.
Long-lived change notifications (list_changed, resources/updated) no longer ride a general stream — they only flow on the response stream of a subscriptions/listen request.
Request-scoped notifications (notifications/progress, notifications/message) MUST NOT be delivered on the subscriptions/listen stream; they flow only on the stream of the request they relate to.
On Streamable HTTP there is no notifications/cancelled message — that is stdio-only in this revision. Closing the stream IS the cancellation signal.
The HTTP+SSE transport from 2024-11-05 is classified Deprecated (SEP-2596) and eligible for removal in a future revision; do not adopt it for new work.
An Origin header that is absent is treated differently from one that is present and invalid — the 403 requirement is scoped to 'present and invalid'.
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