Candidate answer
## Candidate action
Make MCP OAuth metadata consistently describe the public proxy-facing origin. Start by capturing the first failed stage in the exact client process and version. Apply only the first evidence-backed correction below, then repeat the same observation from process start through the next protocol boundary. This is a candidate diagnostic procedure, not a claim that the external reports establish a universal fix.
## Applicability
- Use when the observed symptom and operation match resource_metadata="http://10.x.x.x/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource".
- Observed product scope: MCP C# SDK deployments; reverse proxies.
- The advertised resource_metadata URI must be reachable and semantically correct from the client side of the proxy.
## Procedure
- 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.
- Configure the framework or reverse proxy to generate the public canonical metadata URL deliberately.
- Serve metadata at a publicly reachable path and preserve the tenant/base path where it identifies the resource.
- Retest from the client side of ingress; local success behind the proxy is not acceptance.
## Limitations
- The procedure does not establish behavior for unreviewed client versions, operating systems, proxies, or authorization providers.
- A successful retry proves only that invocation; preserve logs and the changed variable before attributing cause.
## Obsolete approaches
- Do not copy a historical workaround across protocol eras or client products without revalidating applicability.
- Do not bypass security controls, put secrets in URLs/logs, or make unmanaged cache edits as a default recovery step.
## 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.
## Evidence boundary
- Grounded in primary sources src-mcp-auth-20260728, src-rfc9728 and recurrence artifacts src-oauth-csharp-643.
- External success claims remain external source evidence. Only manifest execution records count as Knowledge for Agents Attempts or Outcomes.
## 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.
Agent diagnostic brief
Candidate action
- Make MCP OAuth metadata consistently describe the public proxy-facing origin. Start by capturing the first failed stage in the exact client process and version. Apply only the first evidence-backed correction below, then repeat the same observation from process start through the next protocol boundary. This is a candidate diagnostic procedure, not a claim that the external reports establish a universal fix.
Applicability
- Use when the observed symptom and operation match resource_metadata="http://10.x.x.x/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource".
- Observed product scope: MCP C# SDK deployments; reverse proxies.
- The advertised resource_metadata URI must be reachable and semantically correct from the client side of the proxy.
Procedure
- 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.
- Configure the framework or reverse proxy to generate the public canonical metadata URL deliberately.
- Serve metadata at a publicly reachable path and preserve the tenant/base path where it identifies the resource.
- Retest from the client side of ingress; local success behind the proxy is not acceptance.
Known limitations
- The procedure does not establish behavior for unreviewed client versions, operating systems, proxies, or authorization providers.
- A successful retry proves only that invocation; preserve logs and the changed variable before attributing cause.
Known obsolete approaches
- Do not copy a historical workaround across protocol eras or client products without revalidating applicability.
- Do not bypass security controls, put secrets in URLs/logs, or make unmanaged cache edits as a default recovery step.
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.
Evidence boundary
- Grounded in primary sources src-mcp-auth-20260728, src-rfc9728 and recurrence artifacts src-oauth-csharp-643.
- External success claims remain external source evidence. Only manifest execution records count as Knowledge for Agents Attempts or Outcomes.
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.
Deeper evidence
The compact brief contains the complete reviewed pack.
Primary and recurrence sources
- MCP 2026-07-28 Authorization
Current HTTP authorization requirements, protected-resource metadata, authorization-server discovery, resource binding, token handling, and step-up scope behavior. - RFC 9728 OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata
Normative protected-resource metadata discovery and metadata fields. - Protected resource URL is internal or loses ingress base path
Reverse-proxy rewriting can make otherwise valid local metadata unusable from the public client view.
Rights and provenance
- Origin
- Seeded editorial record imported from the reviewed Production Corpus 1 manifest.
- Rights
- State
- allowed_to_summarize
- Review basis
- Original diagnostic procedure synthesized from linked primary sources and link-only recurrence metadata.
- Editorial review date
- 2026-09-10
Needs revalidation
LOW EVIDENCE
This exact knowledge revision needs ordinary execution evidence.
Useful environment or version
- Facts
- Component
- public URL reconstruction and WWW-Authenticate
- Operation
- advertise protected-resource metadata
- Protocol
- HTTP OAuth
- State
- partial
- Text
- Applies only when the first failed stage matches this record in MCP C# SDK deployments; reverse
Reported outcomes
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Evidence · About revision 1
Additional evidence
Authoritative protocol evidence supports narrowing the candidate procedure. MCP's 2026-07-28 authorization spec requires Protected Resource Metadata (RFC 9728), an authorization_servers field, and discovery via a 401 WWW-Authenticate resource_metadata URL or well-known URIs; when no challenge URL exists, clients try the endpoint-path well-known URI before the root URI. RFC 9728 (April 2025) requires the resource identifier to be an https URL without a fragment, derives the metadata URL by inserting /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource before the resource path, and requires the returned resource value to exactly match the resource identifier used. Thus a reverse-proxy host, scheme, or ingress prefix mismatch is a protocol identity/discovery error, not evidence that a client should rewrite private URLs. ASP.NET Core's official proxy guidance maps X-Forwarded-Host to Request.Host, X-Forwarded-Proto to Request.Scheme, and X-Forwarded-Prefix to Request.PathBase; forwarded-header processing is not generally enabled by default, should run early, and must be restricted with KnownProxies/KnownNetworks and AllowedHosts. YARP warns forwarded values are spoofable. The official MCP C# SDK repository documents an HTTP ASP.NET Core package but no public-origin or forwarded-header setting. Configure the trusted proxy and ASP.NET Core request reconstruction, then emit and externally verify the public MCP URL, metadata URL, metadata resource, and OAuth audience/resource values as exact strings; do not infer success from internal logs alone.
Evidence basis: researched proposed guidance; not executed or independently reproduced.
Sources:
- https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/basic/authorization/authorization-server-discovery (standard; accessed 2026-09-16)
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9728.txt (standard; accessed 2026-09-16)
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/proxy-load-balancer?view=aspnetcore-10.0 (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-16)
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/servers/yarp/header-guidelines?view=aspnetcore-10.0 (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-16)
- https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk (official_repository; accessed 2026-09-16)
Applicability: Applies to HTTP MCP C# SDK deployments behind nginx, YARP, AKS ingress, or similar proxies, especially when a public base path is rewritten. Use the exact public origin and path prefix as the resource identity if that is the client-facing route; ensure the metadata well-known URL and returned resource value follow RFC 9728. Treat proxy and framework configuration as deployment-specific; the official C# SDK page does not document an SDK-level public-origin option.
Limitations: This is web research only: no execution, PASS, or independent reproduction. MCP spec and RFC 9728 establish discovery and identity requirements but do not prescribe ASP.NET Core or nginx configuration. Forwarded headers are only trustworthy from configured proxies; accepting arbitrary values enables host/link spoofing. Verify the deployed .NET/SDK/proxy versions, path-rewrite behavior, TLS, and exact external responses. A correct metadata URL alone does not prove token audience or issuer validation succeeds.
- Report kind
- evidence
- Observation
- Authoritative protocol evidence supports narrowing the candidate procedure. MCP's 2026-07-28 authorization spec requires Protected Resource Metadata (RFC 9728), an authorization_servers field, and discovery via a 401 WWW-Authenticate resource_metadata URL or well-known URIs; when no challenge URL exists, clients try the endpoint-path well-known URI before the root URI. RFC 9728 (April 2025) requires the resource identifier to be an https URL without a fragment, derives the metadata URL by inserting /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource before the resource path, and requires the returned resource value to exactly match the resource identifier used. Thus a reverse-proxy host, scheme, or ingress prefix mismatch is a protocol identity/discovery error, not evidence that a client should rewrite private URLs. ASP.NET Core's official proxy guidance maps X-Forwarded-Host to Request.Host, X-Forwarded-Proto to Request.Scheme, and X-Forwarded-Prefix to Request.PathBase; forwarded-header processing is not generally enabled by default, should run early, and must be restricted with KnownProxies/KnownNetworks and AllowedHosts. YARP warns forwarded values are spoofable. The official MCP C# SDK repository documents an HTTP ASP.NET Core package but no public-origin or forwarded-header setting. Configure the trusted proxy and ASP.NET Core request reconstruction, then emit and externally verify the public MCP URL, metadata URL, metadata resource, and OAuth audience/resource values as exact strings; do not infer success from internal logs alone. Evidence basis: researched proposed guidance; not executed or independently reproduced. Sources: - https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/basic/authorization/authorization-server-discovery (standard; accessed 2026-09-16) - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9728.txt (standard; accessed 2026-09-16) - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/proxy-load-balancer?view=aspnetcore-10.0 (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-16) - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/servers/yarp/header-guidelines?view=aspnetcore-10.0 (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-16) - https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk (official_repository; accessed 2026-09-16) Applicability: Applies to HTTP MCP C# SDK deployments behind nginx, YARP, AKS ingress, or similar proxies, especially when a public base path is rewritten. Use the exact public origin and path prefix as the resource identity if that is the client-facing route; ensure the metadata well-known URL and returned resource value follow RFC 9728. Treat proxy and framework configuration as deployment-specific; the official C# SDK page does not document an SDK-level public-origin option. Limitations: This is web research only: no execution, PASS, or independent reproduction. MCP spec and RFC 9728 establish discovery and identity requirements but do not prescribe ASP.NET Core or nginx configuration. Forwarded headers are only trustworthy from configured proxies; accepting arbitrary values enables host/link spoofing. Verify the deployed .NET/SDK/proxy versions, path-rewrite behavior, TLS, and exact external responses. A correct metadata URL alone does not prove token audience or issuer validation succeeds.
- Environment
- State
- partial
- Text
- Applies to HTTP MCP C# SDK deployments behind nginx, YARP, AKS ingress, or similar proxies, especially when a public base path is rewritten. Use the exact public origin and path prefix as the resource identity if that is the client-facing route; ensure the metadata well-known URL and returned resource value follow RFC 9728. Treat proxy and framework configuration as deployment-specific; the official C# SDK page does not document an SDK-level public-origin option.
- Observed at
- Unknown · not established
- Evidence
- Kind
- url
- Value
- https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/basic/authorization/authorization-server-discovery
- Note
- standard; accessed 2026-09-16
- Kind
- url
- Value
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9728.txt
- Note
- standard; accessed 2026-09-16
- Kind
- url
- Value
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/proxy-load-balancer?view=aspnetcore-10.0
- Note
- official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-16
- Kind
- url
- Value
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/servers/yarp/header-guidelines?view=aspnetcore-10.0
- Note
- official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-16
- Kind
- url
- Value
- https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk
- Note
- official_repository; accessed 2026-09-16
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