fix: support wildcard media types in Accept header validation #1948
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The server rejected requests with wildcard Accept headers like `*/*`, `application/*`, or `text/*`, returning 406 Not Acceptable. Per RFC 9110 Section 12.5.1, these wildcard media types are valid and should match the required content types. This affected clients that send `Accept: */*` (the default for many HTTP libraries including python-httpx), making the server non-compliant with the HTTP specification. Changes: - `*/*` now satisfies both application/json and text/event-stream - `application/*` satisfies application/json - `text/*` satisfies text/event-stream - Quality parameters (`;q=0.9`) are stripped before matching Github-Issue: modelcontextprotocol#1641 Reported-by: rh-fr
- Format streamable_http.py with ruff - Handle cleanup exceptions in ServerThread to avoid PytestUnhandledThreadExceptionWarning in CI - Use module-level filterwarnings for pre-existing ResourceWarning from unclosed streams in stateless transport mode
Existing tests expected 406 for requests without explicit Accept header, but the requests library sends Accept: */* by default. With wildcard support, */* correctly matches all media types per RFC 9110. Updated tests to use explicit non-matching Accept headers (text/html) to properly validate the 406 behavior. Github-Issue:modelcontextprotocol#1641
The handler is required by the Server class but never invoked in these tests (only initialize() is called). Github-Issue:modelcontextprotocol#1641
- Rewrite test_accept_text_wildcard_with_json to test Accept header parsing directly, avoiding SSE mode response streaming which is unreliable with older sse-starlette versions (lowest-direct). - Convert all # pragma: no cover to # pragma: lax no cover in streamable_http.py and streamable_http_manager.py. These code paths have non-deterministic coverage under parallel test execution, so lax pragmas correctly exclude them without triggering strict-no-cover. Github-Issue:modelcontextprotocol#1641
Replace HTTP round-trip tests with direct unit tests of _check_accept_headers to eliminate cross-event-loop issues that caused PytestUnraisableExceptionWarning on Python 3.14/Windows.
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Summary
Fixes #1641
The MCP server was rejecting HTTP requests that use wildcard Accept headers like
*/*orapplication/*, returning406 Not Acceptable. This is incorrect behavior per RFC 9110 Section 12.5.1, which defines wildcard media types as valid content negotiation mechanisms.Many HTTP clients (including browsers, curl, and httpx) send
Accept: */*by default, meaning the server was incompatible with standard HTTP tooling.Changes
Modified
_check_accept_headers()inStreamableHTTPServerTransportto:*/*now matches any required content type,application/*matchesapplication/json, andtext/*matchestext/event-stream;q=0.9are now stripped before matching, so*/*;q=0.8is handled correctlyBehavior
*/*application/*text/*application/json, text/**/*;q=0.8text/plainTest plan
Added 7 regression tests in
tests/issues/test_1641_accept_header_wildcard.pycovering:*/*in both JSON and SSE response modesapplication/*matchingapplication/jsontext/*combined with explicitapplication/json