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@dsp-ant dsp-ant commented Oct 31, 2025

Summary

Fixes an issue where custom headers (like user-agent) and other RequestInit options set when creating transports were not being passed through to authorization requests.

Problem

When clients set custom headers via requestInit.headers when instantiating transports (StreamableHTTPClientTransport, SSEClientTransport), these headers were correctly used for normal MCP operations but were lost during authorization requests such as:

  • .well-known/ metadata discovery
  • Dynamic client registration
  • Token exchange
  • Token refresh

Solution

Created a createFetchWithInit() utility function in src/shared/transport.ts that wraps the fetch function to automatically include base RequestInit options. The transports now use this wrapper before passing fetch to auth functions.

Key Changes

  1. Added createFetchWithInit() utility (src/shared/transport.ts)

    • Wraps fetch with base RequestInit options
    • Properly merges headers (auth-specific headers override base headers)
    • Preserves all RequestInit options (credentials, mode, cache, etc.)
  2. Updated transports (src/client/streamableHttp.ts, src/client/sse.ts)

    • Use createFetchWithInit() to create wrapped fetch for auth requests
    • No code duplication
  3. Extracted normalizeHeaders() utility (src/shared/transport.ts)

    • Shared utility for header normalization
    • Used by both the wrapper and transports

Benefits

  • ✅ All RequestInit options preserved, not just headers
  • ✅ No changes needed to auth module
  • ✅ No code duplication
  • ✅ Proper header merging with correct precedence
  • ✅ Clean, maintainable solution

Testing

Added comprehensive tests in src/client/auth.test.ts:

  • Custom headers from RequestInit are passed to auth discovery requests
  • Auth-specific headers correctly override base headers
  • All RequestInit options are preserved

All 553 tests pass

Test plan

Run the test suite:

npm test

All tests should pass (pre-existing failures in some test suites are due to missing dependencies, not related to these changes).

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@dsp-ant dsp-ant requested review from a team as code owners October 31, 2025 23:12
@pcarleton pcarleton self-assigned this Nov 3, 2025
dsp-ant and others added 4 commits November 3, 2025 18:25
Fixes an issue where custom headers (like user-agent) and other RequestInit
options set when creating transports were not being passed through to
authorization requests (.well-known/ discovery, token exchange, DCR, etc.).

Changes:
- Created createFetchWithInit() utility in shared/transport.ts to wrap fetch
  with base RequestInit options
- Transports now wrap their fetch function before passing to auth module
- All RequestInit options (headers, credentials, mode, etc.) are now preserved
- Auth-specific headers properly override base headers when needed
- Extracted normalizeHeaders() to shared/transport.ts for reuse

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added comprehensive tests to verify that:
- Custom headers (like user-agent) from RequestInit are passed to auth requests
- Auth-specific headers override base headers when needed
- All RequestInit options (credentials, mode, cache, etc.) are preserved

All 553 tests pass.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix linting errors by removing unused destructured url variables.
@dsp-ant dsp-ant force-pushed the fix/auth-requestinit-headers branch from 80747de to 4005a0e Compare November 3, 2025 18:25
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