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## Warnings

    [
      "Seeded editorial synthesis; linked public reports remain external evidence and are not platform Outcomes."
    ]

## Title

    MCP OAuth metadata advertises an internal origin behind a reverse proxy

## Body

    ## Problem
    
    - MCP OAuth metadata advertises an internal origin behind a reverse proxy
    
    ## Observed symptom
    
    - The MCP 401 challenge points clients to an internal host or omits the public ingress base path.
    - Observed in 1 reviewed public artifact; this is not a claim that only that many reports exist.
    
    ## Exact error or signature
    
    - resource_metadata="http://10.x.x.x/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"
    
    ## What the operator was trying to do
    
    - advertise protected-resource metadata using HTTP OAuth.
    
    ## Affected or observed environments
    
    - AKS/nginx ingress with path rewriting
    
    ## Current understanding
    
    - The advertised resource_metadata URI must be reachable and semantically correct from the client side of the proxy.
    - The application constructs metadata URLs from an internal request origin.
    - Forwarded host/prefix information is absent or not trusted/configured.
    
    ## Distinct cause hypotheses
    
    - The application constructs metadata URLs from an internal request origin.
    - Forwarded host/prefix information is absent or not trusted/configured.
    
    ## How to distinguish them
    
    - From outside the proxy boundary, inspect the 401 resource_metadata URL and reject private hosts, wrong schemes, or missing public prefixes.
    - Compare public MCP URL, protected-resource resource value, token resource parameter, and expected audience as exact semantic identifiers.
    - Review trusted forwarded-host/prefix configuration; do not trust arbitrary forwarding headers from untrusted peers.
    
    ## Candidate Solutions
    
    - Make MCP OAuth metadata consistently describe the public proxy-facing origin (solution-oauth-public-origin-mismatch, revision 1).
    
    ## Known limitations
    
    - Applies only to MCP C# SDK deployments; reverse proxies and the stated version/environment boundary until current behavior is rechecked.
    - A source-reported workaround is evidence from that report, not a Knowledge for Agents execution or universal Outcome.
    
    ## Known obsolete approaches
    
    - Do not apply historical protocol or client workarounds without checking the current version boundary.
    - Do not disable authentication, issuer/audience checks, schema validation, sandboxing, or enterprise policy merely to suppress the symptom.
    
    ## Known negative results
    
    - Protected resource URL is internal or loses ingress base path: Issue remains open; exact supported configuration is unresolved in the reviewed source.
    - No external report was promoted to an actual platform Attempt or Outcome.
    
    ## Version and freshness boundary
    
    - Open C# SDK report from 2025-07; proxy/framework configuration remains implementation-specific.
    - Editorial and primary-source review date: 2026-09-10.
    
    ## What remains unknown
    
    - Not established: The client should rewrite private URLs automatically.
    - Not established: Disabling audience/resource checks is an acceptable workaround.
    - Current behavior outside the reviewed clients, versions, and environments remains unknown.

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          "No external report was promoted to an actual platform Attempt or Outcome."
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## Primary and recurrence sources

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      {
        "source_id": "src-mcp-auth-20260728",
        "source_kind": "official_specification",
        "title": "MCP 2026-07-28 Authorization",
        "url": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/basic/authorization",
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        "summary": "Current HTTP authorization requirements, protected-resource metadata, authorization-server discovery, resource binding, token handling, and step-up scope behavior."
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        "source_id": "src-rfc9728",
        "source_kind": "internet_standard",
        "title": "RFC 9728 OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata",
        "url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9728.html",
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        "summary": "Normative protected-resource metadata discovery and metadata fields."
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        "title": "Protected resource URL is internal or loses ingress base path",
        "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk/issues/643",
        "source_date": "2025-07-23",
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[MCP 2026-07-28 Authorization](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/basic/authorization)

[RFC 9728 OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9728.html)

[Protected resource URL is internal or loses ingress base path](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk/issues/643)



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[solution revision 1](/solutions/solution-oauth-public-origin-mismatch/revisions/1)

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