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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion src/server.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -632,7 +632,13 @@ test("server shutdown waits for an active MCP tool call", async (t) => {
assert.equal(shutdownFinished, false);

await writeFile(join(root, "release"), "");
await toolCall;
const response = await toolCall;
assert.equal(response.status, 200, await response.clone().text());
const responseBody = await response.json() as {
result?: { structuredContent?: { exit_code?: number; running?: boolean } };
};
assert.equal(responseBody.result?.structuredContent?.exit_code, 0);
assert.equal(responseBody.result?.structuredContent?.running, false);
await shutdown;
assert.equal(shutdownFinished, true);
});
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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion src/server.ts
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Expand Up @@ -966,14 +966,19 @@ export function createServer(
localAgentProviders,
close: () => {
closePromise ??= (async () => {
await toolActivities.waitForIdle();
// Tool handlers resolving only starts the JSON-RPC response chain;
// it settles several microtasks later. Yield to the macrotask queue
// so in-flight responses are delivered before mcpHandler.close()
// rejects their still-open exchanges (HTTP 499).
await new Promise<void>((resolve) => setImmediate(resolve));
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Whether it is destroyed or pooled depends on the `keepAlive` option.

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#### Response ordering with connection reuse#

On a reused HTTP/1.1 keep-alive connection, responses are associated with requests by their order on that connection. HTTP/1.1 keep-alive does not provide per-request response attribution beyond that ordering. Applications that require per-request connection isolation can use a separate `Agent`, disable keep-alive, or pass `agent: false`.

When a connection is closed by the client or the server, it is removed from the pool. #### `server.close([callback])`#

Added in: v0.1.90 History
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#### `server.closeAllConnections()`#

Added in: v18.2.0

Closes all established HTTP(S) connections connected to this server, including active connections connected to this server which are sending a request or waiting for a response. This does not destroy sockets upgraded to a different protocol, such as WebSocket or HTTP/2.

&gt; This is a forceful way of closing all connections and should be used with caution. Whenever using this in conjunction with `server.close`, calling this after `server.close` is recommended as to avoid race conditions where new connections are created between a call to this and a call to `server.close`.
    
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<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Published: last year; Crawled: 2 months ago; Provide a configurable &quot;drain period&quot; during which after http.Server.close() invocation existing keep-alive idle connections are not immediately closed but still allow to wait for incoming requests. ... I am actually on a venture to analyze and reproduce the graceful shutdown behaviour of all common HTTP servers, including Node.js (and Envoy proxy, nginx, Go, Java/SpringBoot/Tomcat, ...) in the repository: https://github.com/HBTGmbH/httpkeepalive

# Support draining of keep-alive connections on http.Server.close() #60617

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### What is the problem this feature will solve?

Current Behaviour

For HTTP/1.1 server, the current &quot;graceful&quot; shutdown procedure when calling http.Server.close() is as follows:

  1. stop accepting new connections (reject new opened TCP connections (this is fine!))
  2. let active HTTP requests on already established connections finish (this is also fine!)
  3. immediately close idle (keep-alive) connections (THIS IS BAD!)

When the client has currently open HTTP/1.1 keep-alive connections to the Node.js server, those connections are closed by the Node.js server immediately on server shutdown (if they are not actively handling a request). This invokes the race condition of the client sending a new request just as the server decides to close its side of the socket (because the server thinks the connection is idle), yielding a TCP RST for the client.

So, upon calling http.Server.close(), Node.js closes off idle connections as soon as they become idle. If a connection was just serving a HTTP request and entered idle state, it will be closed immediately after entering idle state, even if the client wanted to send a new request right away.

This is especially bad in the case of non-idempotent requests (like POSTs), which would not be retried transparently by any HTTP client and will yield an I/O error (or some form of it) in the client&#39;s application.

Where and why is this a problem

In an environment, where traffic routing is based on DNS or firewall NAT rules (e.g. Kubernetes with kube-proxy/iptables/netfilter) and a client not having out-of-band information about the server wanting to shut down, this leads to clients still sending new HTTP requests over a connection which the server is about to close.

This is not a problem in &quot;North-South&quot; traffic, where Node.js may be behind a load balancer (like an nginx ingress gateway) which has out-of-band information about the Node.js server wanting to close. With this out-of-band information (i.e. given by watching Kubernetes Endpoints/EndpointSlice objects) a load balancer like nginx ingress can by itself close established connections to Node.js servers which it knows are going to shutdown soon, and not route any more HTTP requests over those connections.

But in &quot;East-West&quot; traffic situations, where the Node.js server is requested by e.g. a Java oder other Node.js or Go client (the nature of the client does not matter) and where the client does not have out-of-band information about the Node.js server wanting to shut down, this will yield above mentioned network errors.

Behaviour of other server implementations

Other HTTP server implementations, like Nginx or Envoy proxy, handle this more gracefully by having a &quot;drain period&quot; in which active requests on established connections are still allowed but always automatically including a `Connection: close` header in the response, allowing the client to close the connection without sending new requests over that connection.
In the example of Nginx, this &quot;drain period&quot; is controlled by the keepalive_min_timeout property. This allows to still keep i…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<excerpt>citeturn0search2 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 3 weeks ago;   * [`43403f56f7`] - inspector: harden IP address validation again (Tobias Nießen) nodejs-private/node-private#354 ... On the other side, the Node.js HTTP server will now automatically disconnect idle clients (which are using HTTP Keep-Alive to reuse the connection) when `close()` is invoked).

Node.js 19 is here! Highlights include the update of the V8 JavaScript engine to 10.7, HTTP(s)/1.1 KeepAlive enabled by default, and ESM Resolution adjusts.

Node.js 19 will replace Node.js 18 as our ‘Current’ release line when Node.js 18 enters long-term support (LTS) later this month. As per the release schedule, Node.js 19 will be ‘Current&#39; release for the next 6 months, until April 2023.

### Notable Changes

#### Deprecations and Removals

  * [`7dd2f41c73`] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) module: runtime deprecate exports double slash maps (Guy Bedford) #44495
  * [`ada2d053ae`] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) process: runtime deprecate coercion to integer in `process.exit()` (Daeyeon Jeong) #44711

#### HTTP(S)/1.1 KeepAlive by default

Starting with this release, Node.js sets `keepAlive` to true by default. This means that any outgoing HTTP(s) connection will automatically use HTTP 1.1 Keep-Alive. The default waiting window is 5 seconds. Enable keep-alive will deliver better throughput as connections are reused by default.

Additionally the agent is now able to parse the response `Keep-Alive` which the servers might send. This header instructs the client on how much to stay connected. On the other side, the Node.js HTTP server will now automatically disconnect idle clients (which are using HTTP Keep-Alive to reuse the connection) when `close()` is invoked).

Node.js HTTP(S)/1.1 requests may experience a better throughput/performance by default.

Contributed by Paolo Insogna in #43522

#### DTrace/SystemTap/ETW Support were removed

The main reason is the lack of resources from Node.js team. The complexity to keep the support up-to-date has been proved not worth it without a clear plan to support those tools. Hence, an issue was raised in the Node.js repository to assess a better support, for `DTrace` in specific.

Contributed by Ben Noordhuis in #43651 and #43652

#### V8 10.7

The V8 engine is updated to version 10.7, which is part of Chromium 107. This version include a new feature to the JavaScript API: `Intl.NumberFormat`.

`Intl.NumberFormat` v3 API is a new TC39 ECMA402 stage 3 proposal extend the pre-existing `Intl.NumberFormat`.

The V8 update was a contribution by Michaël Zasso in #44741.

#### llhttp 8.1.0

llhttp has been updated to version 8.1.0.Collectively, this version brings many update to the llhttp API, introducing new callbacks and allow all callback to be pausable.

Contributed by Paolo Insogna in #44967

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<excerpt>citeturn1search0 [wordlim: 200] Published: last year; Crawled: 2 months ago; This invokes the race condition of the client sending a new request just as the server decides to close its side of the socket (because the server thinks the connection is idle), yielding a TCP RST for the client. ... I am actually on a venture to analyze and reproduce the graceful shutdown behaviour of all common HTTP servers, including Node.js (and Envoy proxy, nginx, Go, Java/SpringBoot/Tomcat, ...) in the repository: https://github.com/HBTGmbH/httpkeepalive

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### What is the problem this feature will solve?

Current Behaviour

For HTTP/1.1 server, the current &quot;graceful&quot; shutdown procedure when calling http.Server.close() is as follows:

  1. stop accepting new connections (reject new opened TCP connections (this is fine!))
  2. let active HTTP requests on already established connections finish (this is also fine!)
  3. immediately close idle (keep-alive) connections (THIS IS BAD!)

When the client has currently open HTTP/1.1 keep-alive connections to the Node.js server, those connections are closed by the Node.js server immediately on server shutdown (if they are not actively handling a request). This invokes the race condition of the client sending a new request just as the server decides to close its side of the socket (because the server thinks the connection is idle), yielding a TCP RST for the client.

So, upon calling http.Server.close(), Node.js closes off idle connections as soon as they become idle. If a connection was just serving a HTTP request and entered idle state, it will be closed immediately after entering idle state, even if the client wanted to send a new request right away.

This is especially bad in the case of non-idempotent requests (like POSTs), which would not be retried transparently by any HTTP client and will yield an I/O error (or some form of it) in the client&#39;s application.

Where and why is this a problem

In an environment, where traffic routing is based on DNS or firewall NAT rules (e.g. Kubernetes with kube-proxy/iptables/netfilter) and a client not having out-of-band information about the server wanting to shut down, this leads to clients still sending new HTTP requests over a connection which the server is about to close.

This is not a problem in &quot;North-South&quot; traffic, where Node.js may be behind a load balancer (like an nginx ingress gateway) which has out-of-band information about the Node.js server wanting to close. In the example of Nginx, this &quot;drain period&quot; is controlled by the keepalive_min_timeout property. This allows to still keep idle connections alive for new client requests to come in (which will be answered with `Connection: close`) allowing for truely graceful shutdown of the server.

In theory, this &quot;drain period&quot; should be as large as the largest client-side HTTP Keep-Alive/Idle timeout. In the case of Node.js clients (undici) which has a default client-side keep-alive of 4s, this simply means that the Node.js server should wait at least another 4s for any possible late request coming in on an idle connection. After this timeout, the server can truely close its side of the connection.

This &quot;drain period&quot; should, of course, be configurable on the http.Server object.

### What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?

  1. Provide a configurable &quot;drain period&quot; during which after http.Server.close() invocation existing keep-alive idle connections are not immediately closed but still allow to wait for incoming requests.

  2. Upon http.Server.close(), answer all then incoming requests with `Connection: close`, al…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<title>`http.server.close()` closes idle connections since 18.19.0 · Issue #51677 · nodejs/node · GitHub</title>
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<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Published: 2.7 years ago; Crawled: last month;             reject(new Error(`request failed with status code ${res.statusCode}`)); ...     $ node http-close.mjs ... This tests sends a request before (with keepalive set) and after the `http.Server` is closed to ensure that all requests will be answered and there will be no HTTP or socket errors.
          ^
    
    Error: socket hang up
        at connResetException (node:internal/errors:720:14)
        at Socket.socketOnEnd (node:_http_client:525:23)
        at Socket.emit (node:events:529:35)
        at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1400:12)
        at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
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        at Socket.socketOnEnd (node:_http_client:525:9)
        at Socket.emit (node:events:529:35)
        at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1400:12)
        at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
      code: &#39;ECONNRESET&#39;
    }

### How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

We upgraded to Node 18.19.0 (from 18.18.2) and saw our test fail that tests graceful shutdown. This tests sends a request before (with keepalive set) and after the `http.Server` is closed to ensure that all requests will be answered and there will be no HTTP or socket errors.

In the docs it is also explicitly stated that the `http.server.close()` only stops the server from accepting new connections but not terminating open ones.

### What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

The expected behavior ist that calling `http.server.close()` does not terminate idle connections. Maybe closing (idle) connections should be configurable via an options parameter.

### What do you see instead?

`http.server.close()` calls `http.server.closeIdleConnections()` which will terminate all idle connections.

### Additional information

We think we found the commit that introduced this behavior.

Commit on main: `bd7a808` (only extracts a function)

Commit on tag 18.19.0: `2969722` (adds the `.closeIdleConnections()` call)</excerpt>
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- 2: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V19.md?utm_source=openai
- 3: GitHub issue 60617 in nodejs/node (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)

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Gate new /mcp requests before draining tool activities.

httpServer.close() stops new connections, but it does not reject requests on an active connection whose current response is unfinished. Node can dispatch a pipelined request on that connection after waitForIdle() returns. The request can reach mcpNodeHandler, then mcpHandler.close() can reject its exchange with HTTP 499.

Set the closing gate before waiting and reject new /mcp requests.

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Introduce a closing-state gate in the server lifecycle before tool activity
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P1 Late tools miss shutdown wait

An already-accepted request can enter a tool during the new setImmediate yield, after waitForIdle() has returned. Shutdown never waits again: it closes mcpHandler and stops process sessions while that tool is running. A real HTTP check reproduced a late exec_command spawning a process, receiving HTTP 499 with an empty body, and then being terminated with SIGTERM before completion.

This must be fixed before merging. Prevent further tool entry before declaring the tracker drained, or account for accepted requests that can still enter. Drain admitted tools and their responses before closing the handler and process sessions, and add a regression for this late-entry case.

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<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 6 days ago; `createMcpHandler(factory)` from `@modelcontextprotocol/server` is the v2 HTTP entry that serves 2026-07-28 per request — and, by default (`legacy: &#39;stateless&#39;`), also serves 2025-era traffic per request through the established stateless idiom. ... &gt; If you were on a v2 alpha: `handler.node(req, res, body)` is gone — replace with `toNodeHandler(handler)` and add the `@modelcontextprotocol/node` import.
### Server over HTTP: `createMcpHandler`

`createMcpHandler(factory)` from `@modelcontextprotocol/server` is the v2 HTTP entry that serves 2026-07-28 per request — and, by default (`legacy: &#39;stateless&#39;`), also serves 2025-era traffic per request through the established stateless idiom. One factory, one endpoint, both eras.
    
    import { createMcpHandler, McpServer } from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/server&#39;;
    
    const handler = createMcpHandler(() =&gt; {
        const server = new McpServer({ name: &#39;my-server&#39;, version: &#39;1.0.0&#39; }, { capabilities: { tools: {} } });
        // register tools/resources/prompts once — the same factory backs both eras
        return server;
    });
    // Web-standard runtimes: export default handler;
    // Node frameworks: app.all(&#39;/mcp&#39;, toNodeHandler(handler)) from @modelcontextprotocol/node

A v1 stateless `StreamableHTTPServerTransport` hosting (`sessionIdGenerator: undefined`, fresh transport per request) maps directly onto the default entry. An existing sessionful v1 Streamable HTTP setup keeps serving 2025 clients by routing it in front of a strict (`legacy: &#39;reject&#39;`) entry with `isLegacyRequest(request)`:
    
    const modern = createMcpHandler(factory, { legacy: &#39;reject&#39; });
    export default {
        async fetch(request: Request) {
            if (await isLegacyRequest(request)) return myExistingLegacyHandler(request);
            return modern.fetch(request);
        }
    };

`isLegacyRequest` returns `true` only for requests with no per-request `_meta` envelope claim; route `false` traffic to the modern handler (a malformed modern claim is `false` and answered `-32602` / `-32020` by the modern path). The handler is web-standards-only (`{ fetch, close, notify, bus }`); on Node frameworks wrap once with `toNodeHandler(handler, { onerror? })` from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`. The exported `legacyStatelessFallback(factory)` is the same stateless 2025 serving as a standalone fetch-shaped handler.

&gt; If you were on a v2 alpha: `handler.node(req, res, body)` is gone — replace with `toNodeHandler(handler)` and add the `@modelcontextprotocol/node` import. `NodeIncomingMessageLike` / `NodeServerResponseLike` are now exported from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`, not `@modelcontextprotocol/server`.
&gt; 
&gt; Also: a `MissingRequiredClientCapabilityError` (`-32021`) produced after dispatch — the `input_required` gate refusing an embedded request whose capability the caller did not declare — now answers HTTP 400 (earlier alphas surfaced it in-band on 200). The spec mandates 400 for this error wherever it arises; the JSON-RPC body is unchanged. This applies to a handler-thrown `-32021` too: a proxy relaying a downstream server&#39;s `-32021` should translate it (its `requiredCapabilities` describes the downstream hop&#39;s envelope) rather than rethrow the bare error. Every other handler-produced code (including a relayed `-32020`/`-32022`) keeps the in-band 200, and an exchange whose response stream is already open — the handler streamed first, or `responseMode: &#39;sse&#39;` — keeps its committed 200 and carries the error in-stream.

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<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week;     import { createMcpHandler, McpServer } from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/server&#39;; ... Node frameworks wrap the handler once with `toNodeHandler` from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`; on plain `node:http`, bind loopback explicitly and compose the `localhostHostValidation` / `localhostOriginValidation` guards (also from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`) in front of it, matching the framework factories&#39; defaults:

# Serve over HTTP

To host one MCP endpoint that many clients connect to, serve your factory over Streamable HTTP. A host that launches the server as a local child process speaks stdio instead.

## Create a handler

`createMcpHandler` takes a factory — a function that builds and returns a fresh `McpServer` — and returns the handler that serves it.
    
    import { createMcpHandler, McpServer } from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/server&#39;;
    import * as z from &#39;zod/v4&#39;;
    
    const handler = createMcpHandler(() =&gt; {
        const server = new McpServer({ name: &#39;notes&#39;, version: &#39;1.0.0&#39; });
        server.registerTool(
            &#39;add-note&#39;,
            {
                description: &#39;Save a note&#39;,
                inputSchema: z.object({ text: z.string() })
            },
            async ({ text }) =&gt; ({ content: [{ type: &#39;text&#39;, text: `Saved: ${text}` }] })
        );
        return server;
    });

`handler.fetch` is a web-standard `(Request) =&gt; Promise&lt;Response&gt;` — nothing is listening yet. The tool calls on this page come from a real `Client` driving the handler&#39;s `fetch` in process; Test a server shows that wiring.

Calling `add-note` through it returns the tool result:
    
    `[ { type: &#39;text&#39;, text: &#39;Saved: ship the release notes&#39; } ]
    `

The handler also carries `close` for shutdown and the `notify`/`bus` pair that publishes change events to subscribed clients — see Notifications.

::: info Coming from v1? `createMcpHandler` replaces the per-request `StreamableHTTPServerTransport` + `connect()` wiring — run the codemod, then see the upgrade guide. :::

## Understand the per-request factory

The factory runs once per HTTP request: a fresh instance serves every request, and the handler holds nothing between requests. Register tools, resources, and prompts inside the factory, never on a shared instance outside it.

The factory receives the request context — `era`, `authInfo`, and the inbound `Request` as `requestInfo`. Destructure `authInfo` to build the instance around one caller; Pass authentication through shows where the value comes from.
    
    const perCaller = createMcpHandler(({ authInfo }) =&gt; {
        const server = new McpServer({ name: &#39;notes&#39;, version: &#39;1.0.0&#39; });
        server.registerTool(&#39;whoami&#39;, { description: &#39;Name the authenticated caller&#39; }, async () =&gt; ({
            content: [{ type: &#39;text&#39;, text: authInfo?.clientId ?? &#39;anonymous&#39; }]
        }));
        return server;
    });

Every request now gets an instance built for its own caller. Keep the factory cheap and side-effect-free: create connection pools and caches once at module scope and close over them.

`era` names the protocol revision the request speaks — see Protocol versions.

Because no state lives on the instance, the endpoint is stateless and scales horizontally as-is; sessions, resumability, and multi-node fan-out are their own page, Sessions, state, and scaling.

## Mount it on your runtime

On a web-standard runtime — Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun — `export default handler` is the entire mount. Node frameworks wrap the handler once with `toNodeHandler` from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`; on plain `node:http`, bind loopback explicitly and compose the `localhostHostValidation` / `localhostOriginValidation` guards (also from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`) in front of it, matching the framework factories&#39; default…[truncated]</excerpt>
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/**

* `createMcpHandler` — the HTTP entry point for serving the 2026-07-28 protocol

* revision, with old-school stateless 2025-era serving as the default fallback.

*

* The entry classifies every inbound HTTP request exactly once (body-primary,

* via {@linkcode classifyInboundRequest}) and routes it:

*

* - Requests carrying the per-request `_meta` envelope are served on the modern

* path: a fresh server instance from the consumer&#39;s factory, marked as

* serving the claimed revision, connected to a single-exchange per-request

* transport.

* - Requests without an envelope claim (including `initialize`, GET/DELETE
* with `toNodeHandler(handler)` from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`.

*/

export interface McpHttpHandler {

/** Web-standard face: serve one HTTP request and resolve with the response. */

fetch: (request: Request, options?: McpHandlerRequestOptions) =&gt; Promise&lt;Response&gt;;

/**

* Tears down the modern leg: aborts in-flight modern exchanges and closes

* their per-request instances. Legacy serving is unaffected — the

* stateless fallback is per-request by construction and holds nothing

* between exchanges.

*/

close: () =&gt; Promise&lt;void&gt;;

/**

* Typed publish-side facade over the handler&#39;s `subscriptions/listen` bus:

* each method publishes the corresponding change event to every open

* subscription stream that opted in to that notification type.

*

* Safe to call when no subscription is open (no-op).

*/

notify: ServerNotifier;

/**

* The change-event bus this handler&#39;s `subscriptions/listen` streams

* subscribe to (the supplied `bus` option, or the auto-created in-process

* default).

*/

bus: ServerEventBus;
if (meta !== undefined) {

seedClientIdentityFromEnvelope(server, {

clientInfo: meta[CLIENT_INFO_META_KEY] as Implementation | undefined,

clientCapabilities: declaredClientCapabilities

});

}

// Track the instance until its exchange tears down so close() can abort it.

const previousOnClose = server.onclose;

inflight.add(server);

const onExchangeClose = () =&gt; {

inflight.delete(server);

// Restore by identity so a handler installed during the exchange is kept.

if (server.onclose === onExchangeClose) {

server.onclose = previousOnClose;

}

previousOnClose?.();

};

server.onclose = onExchangeClose;

try {

const response = await invoke(product, route.message, {

classification: route.classification,

request,

...(authInfo !== undefined &amp;&amp; { authInfo }),

...(responseMode !== undefined &amp;&amp; { responseMode }),

...(options.keepAliveMs !== undefined &amp;&amp; { keepAliveMs: options.keepAliveMs })

});

if (route.messageKind === &#39;notification&#39;) {

// Notification exchanges have no terminal response to ride the

// transport&#39;s auto-close, so release the per-request instance here.

queueMicrotask(() =&gt; void server.close().catch(() =&gt; {}));

}

return response;

} catch (error) {

if (error instanceof SdkError &amp;&amp; error.code === SdkErrorCode.ConnectionClosed) {

// The client went away before a response existed; there is

// nobody left to answer.

return new Response(null, { status: 499 });

}

// No terminal response will ride the transport&#39;s close chain after a

// failure here: close the per-request instance explicitly and drop it

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<excerpt>citeturn0search3 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 6 days ago; The limit is configurable with a new `maxRequestBodySize` option (bytes, default `DEFAULT_MAX_REQUEST_BODY_SIZE` = 4 MiB, exported from `@modelcontextprotocol/server`) on `WebStandardStreamableHTTPServerTransportOptions`, `CreateMcpHandlerOptions` (forwarded to its stateless legacy leg; `isLegacyRequest` and `legacyStatelessFallback` take the same option), `CreateMcpHonoAppOptions`, and `ToNodeHandlerOptions` / `ToWebRequestOptions` (the adapter&#39;s bound applies before the handler&#39;s, so raise both).
  * Updated dependencies [`a400259`]:
    * @modelcontextprotocol/server@2.0.0-beta.1

## 2.0.0-alpha.4

### Minor Changes

  * #2286 `1823aae` Thanks @felixweinberger! - `createMcpHandler` now returns a web-standards-only `{ fetch, close, notify, bus }` handler — the shape Workers/Bun/Deno expect from `export default`. The duck-typed `.node(req, res, parsedBody?)` face is removed; Node frameworks (Express, Fastify, plain `node:http`) wrap the handler once with the new `toNodeHandler(handler, { onerror? })` exported from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`, which converts the Node request to a web-standard `Request`, calls `handler.fetch`, and writes the `Response` back honoring write backpressure. The optional `onerror` receives the adapter-level error fallback (request conversion / `handler.fetch` throw) before the `500` response is written, restoring observability parity with the removed `.node` face. `NodeIncomingMessageLike` and `NodeServerResponseLike` move from `@modelcontextprotocol/server` to `@modelcontextprotocol/node`.
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<excerpt>citeturn0search4 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week;     import { createMcpHandler, McpServer } from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/server&#39;; ...   * One install line, one file: `createMcpExpressApp()` plus `app.all(&#39;/mcp&#39;, …)` over `toNodeHandler(createMcpHandler(factory))`.

# Serve with Express
    
    npm install @modelcontextprotocol/server @modelcontextprotocol/express @modelcontextprotocol/node express

## Mount the handler

`createMcpHandler` turns a server factory into a web-standard HTTP handler, and `toNodeHandler` adapts it once to Express&#39;s `(req, res)`. `createMcpExpressApp` is `express()` with `express.json()` and DNS rebinding protection already applied.
    
    import { createMcpExpressApp } from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/express&#39;;
    import { toNodeHandler } from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/node&#39;;
    import { createMcpHandler, McpServer } from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/server&#39;;
    import * as z from &#39;zod/v4&#39;;
    
    const handler = createMcpHandler(() =&gt; {
        const server = new McpServer({ name: &#39;notes&#39;, version: &#39;1.0.0&#39; });
        server.registerTool(&#39;add-note&#39;, { description: &#39;Append a note&#39;, inputSchema: z.object({ text: z.string() }) }, async ({ text }) =&gt; ({
            content: [{ type: &#39;text&#39;, text: `Saved: ${text}` }]
        }));
        return server;
    });
    
    const app = createMcpExpressApp();
    const node = toNodeHandler(handler);
    app.all(&#39;/mcp&#39;, (req, res) =&gt; void node(req, res, req.body));

`app` is an ordinary Express app with one route — `/mcp` answers every MCP request — and nothing is listening yet. The factory runs once per request, so a fresh `McpServer` serves every call: Serve over HTTP covers that model.

## Protect against DNS rebinding

A malicious page can DNS-rebind its own domain to `127.0.0.1` and reach a localhost server as if it were same-origin. `createMcpExpressApp` validates the `Host` and `Origin` headers against that: with the default `127.0.0.1` bind (and `localhost` / `::1`), a request carrying a non-localhost value gets `403` before your handler runs.

Binding to all interfaces drops that default — name the hosts you serve instead.
    
    const publicApp = createMcpExpressApp({ host: &#39;0.0.0.0&#39;, allowedHosts: [&#39;api.example.com&#39;] });

`allowedHosts` and `allowedOrigins` take hostnames, port-agnostic.     
    const auth = requireBearerAuth({ verifier });
    publicApp.all(&#39;/mcp&#39;, auth, (req, res) =&gt; void node(req, res, req.body));

`verifier` is your token verification. Authorization covers writing one, requiring scopes, and serving the OAuth metadata documents.

## Run it and verify

Add the listen line and start the process (`npx tsx server.ts`).
    
    app.listen(3000);

POST a `tools/list` request to the endpoint.
    
    curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:3000/mcp \
      -H &#39;Content-Type: application/json&#39; \
      -H &#39;Accept: application/json, text/event-stream&#39; \
      -d &#39;{&quot;jsonrpc&quot;:&quot;2.0&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1,&quot;method&quot;:&quot;tools/list&quot;}&#39;

The response is a single SSE `message` event carrying the `tools/list` result:
    
    `event: message
    data: {&quot;result&quot;:{&quot;tools&quot;:[{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;add-note&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;Append a note&quot;,&quot;inputSchema&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;object&quot;,&quot;$schema&quot;:&quot;https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema&quot;,&quot;properties&quot;:{&quot;text&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;string&quot;}},&quot;required&quot;:[&quot;text&quot;]}}]},&quot;jsonrpc&quot;:&quot;2.0&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1}
    `

## Recap

  * One install line, one file: `createMcpExpressApp()` plus `app.all(&#39;/mcp&#39;, …)` over `toNodeHandler(createMcpHandler(factory))`.
  * A fresh server instance from your factory serves every request.
  * `createMcpExpressApp` already runs `express.…[truncated]</excerpt>
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- 1: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/docs/serving/http.md?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/docs/serving/http.md?utm_source=openai
- 3: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/docs/migration/support-2026-07-28.md?utm_source=openai

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L106: 【4†Overview】
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## 2.0.0-beta.2

### Patch Changes

  * #2405 `f172626` Thanks @mattzcarey! - Ship CommonJS builds alongside ESM. Each package now emits both `.mjs`/`.d.mts` and `.cjs`/`.d.cts` (via tsdown `format: [&#39;esm&#39;, &#39;cjs&#39;]`), and its `exports` map adds a `require` condition so `require(&#39;@modelcontextprotocol/…&#39;)` works from CommonJS consumers. Output extensions are normalized across all packages (`@modelcontextprotocol/core` moves from `.js`/`.d.ts` to `.mjs`/`.d.mts`); the public import paths are unchanged.
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    * @modelcontextprotocol/server@2.0.0-beta.2

## 2.0.0-beta.1

### Patch Changes

  * #2402 `a400259` Thanks @felixweinberger! - First beta release of SDK v2 with support for the MCP 2026-07-28 specification revision. See the migration guides for upgrading from v1 (`docs/migration/upgrade-to-v2.md`) and adopting the 2026-07-28 revision (`docs/migration/support-2026-07-28.md`).
  * Updated dependencies [`a400259`]:
    * @modelcontextprotocol/server@2.0.0-beta.1

## 2.0.0-alpha.4

### Minor Changes

  * #2286 `1823aae` Thanks @felixweinberger! - `createMcpHandler` now returns a web-standards-only `{ fetch, close, notify, bus }` handler — the shape Workers/Bun/Deno expect from `export default`. The duck-typed `.node(req, res, parsedBody?)` face is removed; Node frameworks (Express, Fastify, plain `node:http`) wrap the handler once with the new `toNodeHandler(handler, { onerror? })` exported from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`, which converts the Node request to a web-standard `Request`, calls `handler.fetch`, and writes the `Response` back honoring write backpressure. The optional `onerror` receives the adapter-level error fallback (request conversion / `handler.fetch` throw) before the `500` response is written, restoring observability parity with the removed `.node` face. `NodeIncomingMessageLike` and `NodeServerResponseLike` move from `@modelcontextprotocol/server` to `@modelcontextprotocol/node`.
## 2.0.0-alpha.3

### Patch Changes

  * #1896 `5433f40` Thanks @felixweinberger! - Mark `hono` peer dependency as optional. `@modelcontextprotocol/node` only uses `getRequestListener` from `@hono/node-server` (Node HTTP ↔ Web Standard conversion), which does not require the `hono` framework at runtime. Consumers no longer need to install `hono` to use `NodeStreamableHTTPServerTransport`. Note: `@hono/node-server` itself still declares `hono` as a hard peer, so package managers may emit a warning; this is upstream and harmless for `getRequestListener`-only usage.

  * #1898 `2a7611d` Thanks @felixweinberger! - Add top-level `types` field (and `typesVersions` on client/server for their subpath exports) so consumers on legacy `moduleResolution: &quot;node&quot;` can resolve type declarations. The `exports` map remains the source of truth for `nodenext`/`bundler` resolution. The `typesVersions` map includes entries for subpaths added by sibling PRs in this series (`zod-schemas`, `stdio`); those entries are no-ops until the corresponding `dist/*.d.mts` files exist.

  * Updated dependencies [`e8c7180`, `434b2f1`, `db83829`, `e84c3e9`, `42cb6b2`, `c59dc3a`, `df4b6cc`, `2c0c481`, `0fb8406`, `2a7611d`, `e15a8ef`, `db28156`, `49c0a71`, `c8d7401`, `96db044`, `1b53a41`, `9fc9070`, `16d13ab`, `55b1f06`, `b256546`]:

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/**

* `createMcpHandler` — the HTTP entry point for serving the 2026-07-28 protocol

* revision, with old-school stateless 2025-era serving as the default fallback.

*

* The entry classifies every inbound HTTP request exactly once (body-primary,

* via {@linkcode classifyInboundRequest}) and routes it:

*

* - Requests carrying the per-request `_meta` envelope are served on the modern

* path: a fresh server instance from the consumer&#39;s factory, marked as

* serving the claimed revision, connected to a single-exchange per-request

* transport.

* - Requests without an envelope claim (including `initialize`, GET/DELETE

* session operations, and 2025-era notification POSTs) are legacy traffic.

* By default they are served per request through the stateless idiom from

* the same factory (`legacy: &#39;stateless&#39;`); with `legacy: &#39;reject&#39;` the

* endpoint is modern-only strict and answers the documented rejection cells

* instead — there is no 2025 serving in that mode.

*

* There is no handler-valued `legacy` option: an existing legacy deployment

* (for example a sessionful streamable HTTP wiring) keeps serving 2025 traffic

* by routing in user land with {@linkcode isLegacyRequest} — the entry&#39;s own

* classification step, exported as a predicate — in front of a strict

* (`legacy: &#39;reject&#39;`) handler.

*

* The entry performs no Origin/Host validation (mount the origin/host

* validation middleware in front of it) and no token verification — `authInfo`

* is pass-through from the caller and is never derived from request headers.

*/

import type {

AuthInfo,

ClientCapabilities,

Implementation,

InboundClassificationOutcome,

InboundHttpRequest,

InboundLadderRejection,

InboundLegacyRoute,

InboundModernRoute,

RequestId

} from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/core-internal&#39;;

import {

classifyInboundRequest,

CLIENT_CAPABILITIES_META_KEY,

CLIENT_INFO_META_KEY,

httpStatusForErrorCode,

isJsonContentType,

mediaTypeEssence,

missingClientCapabilities,

MissingRequiredClientCapabilityError,

modernOnlyStrictRejection,

requestMetaOf,

requiredClientCapabilitiesForRequest,

scanXMcpHeaderDeclarations,

SdkError,


import { WebStandardStreamableHTTPServerTransport } from &#39;./streamableHttp&#39;;

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *

* Factory and handler types

* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */

/**

* Construction context handed to an {@linkcode McpServerFactory}.

*

* Both serving entries call the factory with this context whenever they need

* a fresh instance: {@linkcode createMcpHandler} once per HTTP request, and

* `serveStdio` (from `@modelcontextprotocol/server/stdio`) once per

* connection — plus once for a `server/discover` probe instance that is

* discarded again if the client falls back to `initialize`.

*

* Zero-argument factories remain assignable unchanged; the context exists for

* factories that vary by principal or era (for example multi-tenant servers

* keyed off `authInfo`, or a factory that registers extra surface only for one

* era).

*/

export interface McpRequestContext {

/**

* The protocol era the constructed instance will serve: `modern` for

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* with `toNodeHandler(handler)` from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`.

*/

export interface McpHttpHandler {

/** Web-standard face: serve one HTTP request and resolve with the response. */

fetch: (request: Request, options?: McpHandlerRequestOptions) =&gt; Promise&lt;Response&gt;;

/**

* Tears down the modern leg: aborts in-flight modern exchanges and closes

* their per-request instances. Legacy serving is unaffected — the

* stateless fallback is per-request by construction and holds nothing

* between exchanges.

*/

close: () =&gt; Promise&lt;void&gt;;

/**

* Typed publish-side facade over the handler&#39;s `subscriptions/listen` bus:

* each method publishes the corresponding change event to every open

* subscription stream that opted in to that notification type.

*

* Safe to call when no subscription is open (no-op).

*/

notify: ServerNotifier;

/**

* The change-event bus this handler&#39;s `subscriptions/listen` streams

* subscribe to (the supplied `bus` option, or the auto-created in-process

* default).

*/

bus: ServerEventBus;
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MCP TypeScript SDK (V2) / @modelcontextprotocol/node / toNodeHandler

# toNodeHandler ​

## Interfaces ​

### FetchLikeMcpHandler ​

Defined in: packages/middleware/node/src/toNodeHandler.ts:83

The web-standard fetch face of an `McpHttpHandler` (or any fetch-shaped MCP handler) — the only surface `toNodeHandler` touches. Accepting the face structurally keeps the adapter usable with hand-wired compositions that route over `isLegacyRequest` and produce a `Response` directly.

### NodeIncomingMessageLike ​

Defined in: packages/middleware/node/src/toNodeHandler.ts:59

Minimal duck-typed shape of a Node.js `IncomingMessage` accepted by `toNodeHandler`. Kept structural so the adapter stays free of `node:` imports.

#### Extends ​

  * `AsyncIterable`&lt;`unknown`&gt;

#### Properties ​

##### auth? ​

&gt; `optional` auth?: `AuthInfo`
` request handler. The returned function converts the Node request to a web-standard `Request`, calls `handler.fetch`, then writes the `Response` back to `res` (honoring write backpressure for streamed SSE responses).

`req.auth` is forwarded as the handler&#39;s pass-through `authInfo`. A function third argument (Express&#39;s `next`) is ignored, never treated as a body.

Pass `{ onerror }` to observe the adapter-level error fallback (request conversion / `handler.fetch` throw) before the `500` response is written.

#### Parameters ​

##### handler ​

`FetchLikeMcpHandler`

##### opts? ​

`ToNodeHandlerOptions`

#### Returns ​

`NodeMcpRequestHandler`

### toWebRequest() ​

&gt; toWebRequest(`req`, `parsedBody?`, `options?`): `Promise`&lt;`Request`&gt;

Defined in: packages/middleware/node/src/toNodeHandler.ts:264

Convert a Node.js `IncomingMessage` (duck-typed — an Express `req` works) to the web-standard `Request` that `handler.fetch()` and `isLegacyRequest()` take. This is the conversion `toNodeHandler` performs internally, exported for hand-wired compositions:

ts
    
    `const probe = await toWebRequest(req, req.body);
    await ((await isLegacyRequest(probe)) ? legacy(req, res) : modern(req, res, req.body));`

With no `parsedBody` the Node stream is read to completion (up to `maxRequestBodySize`, 4 MiB by default — a longer body rejects with an error carrying `name: &#39;RequestBodyTooLargeError&#39;` and `status: 413`) — read the body from the returned `Request` afterwards, not from `req`. When a body parser already consumed the stream (`express.json()`), pass the parsed value as `parsedBody` and nothing is read from `req`.

#### Parameters ​

##### req ​

`NodeIncomingMessageLike`

##### parsedBody? ​

`unknown`

##### options? ​

`ToWebRequestOptions`

#### Returns ​

`Promise`&lt;`Request`&gt;</excerpt>
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- 2: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/packages/server/src/server/createMcpHandler.ts?utm_source=openai
- 3: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/packages/middleware/node/CHANGELOG.md?utm_source=openai

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<title>createMcpHandler: reused McpServer instance grows an unbounded onclose chain — memory leak, then uncatchable RangeError after ~20k requests · Issue #2607 · modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk · GitHub</title>
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L179:   1. Memory leak — every request retains one more closure (plus whatever it captures) for the lifetime of the server.
L180:   2. Process crash — when the chain eventually runs (session cleanup under sustained load, or `handler.close()`), it recurses one stack frame per accumulated wrapper and dies with `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded`. In our runs the overflow lands at roughly 19–25k accumulated sessions.
L181: Notably, the crash surfaces as an uncaught async error after `handler.close()` has already resolved, so the caller can&#39;t even `try/catch` around `close()` — the process just dies:
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L185:     RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
L186:         at Set.delete (&lt;anonymous&gt;)
L187:         at server.onclose (@modelcontextprotocol/server/dist/index.mjs:1295:19)
L188:         at server.onclose (@modelcontextprotocol/server/dist/index.mjs:1296:21)
L189:         at server.onclose (@modelcontextprotocol/server/dist/index.mjs:1296:21)
L190:         ... (thousands of identical frames)
L191:     `
L192: Under sustained concurrent HTTP load the same overflow fires mid-traffic (whenever cleanup closes an accumulated session), taking down an otherwise healthy server after ~19k requests.
L193: Reusing an instance is admittedly not the intended use of the factory — a fresh server per session is the fix on the caller side, and switching to that resolved it for us. But it&#39;s an easy mistake to make (the factory signature happily accepts `() =&gt; sharedServer`, every request still returns 200,…[truncated]</excerpt>
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/**

* `createMcpHandler` — the HTTP entry point for serving the 2026-07-28 protocol

* revision, with old-school stateless 2025-era serving as the default fallback.

*

* The entry classifies every inbound HTTP request exactly once (body-primary,

* via {@linkcode classifyInboundRequest}) and routes it:

*

* - Requests carrying the per-request `_meta` envelope are served on the modern

* path: a fresh server instance from the consumer&#39;s factory, marked as

* serving the claimed revision, connected to a single-exchange per-request

* transport.

* - Requests without an envelope claim (including `initialize`, GET/DELETE

import { WebStandardStreamableHTTPServerTransport } from &#39;./streamableHttp&#39;;

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *

* Factory and handler types

* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */

/**

* Construction context handed to an {@linkcode McpServerFactory}.

*

* Both serving entries call the factory with this context whenever they need

* a fresh instance: {@linkcode createMcpHandler} once per HTTP request, and

* `serveStdio` (from `@modelcontextprotocol/server/stdio`) once per

* connection — plus once for a `server/discover` probe instance that is

* discarded again if the client falls back to `initialize`.

*

* Zero-argument factories remain assignable unchanged; the context exists for

* factories that vary by principal or era (for example multi-tenant servers

* keyed off `authInfo`, or a factory that registers extra surface only for one

* era).

*/

export interface McpRequestContext {

/**

* The protocol era the constructed instance will serve: `modern` for

* 2026-07-28 (per-request envelope) traffic, `legacy` for 2025-era

* traffic. Under {@linkcode createMcpHandler} a `legacy` instance serves

* one request through the stateless legacy fallback (the default —

* `legacy: &#39;reject&#39;` endpoints are strict and never construct one); under

* `serveStdio` it serves a connection that opened with the 2025 handshake

* and stays pinned to that era for its lifetime.

*/

era: &#39;legacy&#39; | &#39;modern&#39;;

/**

* Validated authentication information passed by the caller of the

* handler face (pass-through; HTTP only — `serveStdio` never sets it).

*/

authInfo?: AuthInfo;

/** The original HTTP request being served, when available (HTTP only — `serveStdio` never sets it). */

* with `toNodeHandler(handler)` from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`.

*/

export interface McpHttpHandler {

/** Web-standard face: serve one HTTP request and resolve with the response. */

fetch: (request: Request, options?: McpHandlerRequestOptions) =&gt; Promise&lt;Response&gt;;

/**

* Tears down the modern leg: aborts in-flight modern exchanges and closes

* their per-request instances. Legacy serving is unaffected — the

* stateless fallback is per-request by construction and holds nothing

* between exchanges.

*/

close: () =&gt; Promise&lt;void&gt;;

/**

* Typed publish-side facade over the handler&#39;s `subscriptions/listen` bus:

* each method publishes the corresponding change event to every open

* subscription stream that opted in to that notification type.

*

* Safe to call when no subscription is open (no-op).

*/

notify: ServerNotifier;

/**

* The change-event bus this handler&#39;s `subscriptions/listen` streams

* subscribe to (the supplied `bus` option, or the auto-cr…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 6 days ago; `createMcpHandler(factory)` from `@modelcontextprotocol/server` is the v2 HTTP entry that serves 2026-07-28 per request — and, by default (`legacy: &#39;stateless&#39;`), also serves 2025-era traffic per request through the established stateless idiom.
### Server over HTTP: `createMcpHandler`

`createMcpHandler(factory)` from `@modelcontextprotocol/server` is the v2 HTTP entry that serves 2026-07-28 per request — and, by default (`legacy: &#39;stateless&#39;`), also serves 2025-era traffic per request through the established stateless idiom. One factory, one endpoint, both eras.
    
    import { createMcpHandler, McpServer } from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/server&#39;;
    
    const handler = createMcpHandler(() =&gt; {
        const server = new McpServer({ name: &#39;my-server&#39;, version: &#39;1.0.0&#39; }, { capabilities: { tools: {} } });
        // register tools/resources/prompts once — the same factory backs both eras
        return server;
    });
    // Web-standard runtimes: export default handler;
    // Node frameworks: app.all(&#39;/mcp&#39;, toNodeHandler(handler)) from @modelcontextprotocol/node

A v1 stateless `StreamableHTTPServerTransport` hosting (`sessionIdGenerator: undefined`, fresh transport per request) maps directly onto the default entry. An existing sessionful v1 Streamable HTTP setup keeps serving 2025 clients by routing it in front of a strict (`legacy: &#39;reject&#39;`) entry with `isLegacyRequest(request)`:
    
    const modern = createMcpHandler(factory, { legacy: &#39;reject&#39; });
    export default {
        async fetch(request: Request) {
            if (await isLegacyRequest(request)) return myExistingLegacyHandler(request);
            return modern.fetch(request);
        }
    };

`isLegacyRequest` returns `true` only for requests with no per-request `_meta` envelope claim; route `false` traffic to the modern handler (a malformed modern claim is `false` and answered `-32602` / `-32020` by the modern path). The handler is web-standards-only (`{ fetch, close, notify, bus }`); on Node frameworks wrap once with `toNodeHandler(handler, { onerror? })` from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`. The exported `legacyStatelessFallback(factory)` is the same stateless 2025 serving as a standalone fetch-shaped handler.

&gt; If you were on a v2 alpha: `handler.node(req, res, body)` is gone — replace with `toNodeHandler(handler)` and add the `@modelcontextprotocol/node` import. `NodeIncomingMessageLike` / `NodeServerResponseLike` are now exported from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`, not `@modelcontextprotocol/server`.
&gt; 
&gt; Also: a `MissingRequiredClientCapabilityError` (`-32021`) produced after dispatch — the `input_required` gate refusing an embedded request whose capability the caller did not declare — now answers HTTP 400 (earlier alphas surfaced it in-band on 200). The spec mandates 400 for this error wherever it arises; the JSON-RPC body is unchanged. This applies to a handler-thrown `-32021` too: a proxy relaying a downstream server&#39;s `-32021` should translate it (its `requiredCapabilities` describes the downstream hop&#39;s envelope) rather than rethrow the bare error. Every other handler-produced code (including a relayed `-32020`/`-32022`) keeps the in-band 200, and an exchange whose response stream is already open — the handler streamed first, or `responseMode: &#39;sse&#39;` — keeps its committed 200 and carries the error in-stream.

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<excerpt>citeturn0search2 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week;     import { createMcpHandler, McpServer } from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/server&#39;; ... `&#39;json&#39;` never streams: the SDK drops mid-call notifications and delivers only the terminal result. `&#39;sse&#39;` always streams. `subscriptions/listen` streams stay on SSE whichever you pick.

# Serve over HTTP

To host one MCP endpoint that many clients connect to, serve your factory over Streamable HTTP. A host that launches the server as a local child process speaks stdio instead.

## Create a handler

`createMcpHandler` takes a factory — a function that builds and returns a fresh `McpServer` — and returns the handler that serves it.
    
    import { createMcpHandler, McpServer } from &#39;@modelcontextprotocol/server&#39;;
    import * as z from &#39;zod/v4&#39;;
    
    const handler = createMcpHandler(() =&gt; {
        const server = new McpServer({ name: &#39;notes&#39;, version: &#39;1.0.0&#39; });
        server.registerTool(
            &#39;add-note&#39;,
            {
                description: &#39;Save a note&#39;,
                inputSchema: z.object({ text: z.string() })
            },
            async ({ text }) =&gt; ({ content: [{ type: &#39;text&#39;, text: `Saved: ${text}` }] })
        );
        return server;
    });

`handler.fetch` is a web-standard `(Request) =&gt; Promise&lt;Response&gt;` — nothing is listening yet.     
    const perCaller = createMcpHandler(({ authInfo }) =&gt; {
        const server = new McpServer({ name: &#39;notes&#39;, version: &#39;1.0.0&#39; });
        server.registerTool(&#39;whoami&#39;, { description: &#39;Name the authenticated caller&#39; }, async () =&gt; ({
            content: [{ type: &#39;text&#39;, text: authInfo?.clientId ?? &#39;anonymous&#39; }]
        }));
        return server;
    });

Every request now gets an instance built for its own caller. Keep the factory cheap and side-effect-free: create connection pools and caches once at module scope and close over them.

`era` names the protocol revision the request speaks — see Protocol versions.

Because no state lives on the instance, the endpoint is stateless and scales horizontally as-is; sessions, resumability, and multi-node fan-out are their own page, Sessions, state, and scaling.

## Mount it on your runtime

On a web-standard runtime — Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun — `export default handler` is the entire mount. Node frameworks wrap the handler once with `toNodeHandler` from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`; on plain `node:http`, bind loopback explicitly and compose the `localhostHostValidation` / `localhostOriginValidation` guards (also from `@modelcontextprotocol/node`) in front of it, matching the framework factories&#39; defaults:

Under a Node framework the verifying middleware runs first and `toNodeHandler` forwards what it sets — each recipe shows its own mount, and Require authorization builds the verifier with `requireBearerAuth`.

With an `AuthInfo` whose `clientId` is `alice`, `whoami` from the factory above answers:
    
    `[ { type: &#39;text&#39;, text: &#39;alice&#39; } ]

## Shape the response stream

The handler answers a request with a single JSON body and upgrades to an SSE stream only when a tool handler emits a notification — progress, logging — before its result. `responseMode` pins one shape instead.
    
    const jsonOnly = createMcpHandler(factory, { responseMode: &#39;json&#39; });

`&#39;json&#39;` never streams: the SDK drops mid-call notifications and delivers only the terminal result. `&#39;sse&#39;` always streams. `subscriptions/listen` streams stay on SSE whichever you pick.

::: info The handler serves 2025-era clients statelessly from the same factory by default. The `legacy` option — and where the SSE transport went — is on Support legacy clients. :::

## Shut down

`handler.close()` aborts in-flight exchanges and closes their per-request instances; the handler holds nothing else.
    
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- 1: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/docs/serving/http.md?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/packages/server/src/server/createMcpHandler.ts
- 3: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/docs/migration/support-2026-07-28.md?utm_source=openai
- 4: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/packages/server/src/server/createMcpHandler.ts

Wait for the MCP response promise before closing the handler.

The tracker observes only the tool handler. The modern MCP exchange remains in flight while toNodeHandler writes the response. mcpHandler.close() aborts in-flight modern exchanges, so one setImmediate is not a completion guarantee.

Suggested fix 
 const toolActivities = new ToolActivityTracker();
+const mcpRequests = new ToolActivityTracker();
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       try {
-        await mcpNodeHandler(req, res, req.body);
+        await mcpRequests.track(() => mcpNodeHandler(req, res, req.body));
       } catch (error) {
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         await toolActivities.waitForIdle();
-        await new Promise<void>((resolve) => setImmediate(resolve));
+        await mcpRequests.waitForIdle();
         try {
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Review comment at @src/server.ts around lines 972 - 976:
Track modern MCP requests with a dedicated ToolActivityTracker around
mcpNodeHandler, then await mcpRequests.waitForIdle() during shutdown before
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} catch (error) {
logEvent(config.logging, "warn", "mcp_handler_close_failed", {
error: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error),
});
}
await toolActivities.waitForIdle();
processSessions.shutdown();
oauthProvider.close();
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