Authorization header length limit is too low to accomodate some Entra ID tokens
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### Describe the bug
I'm trying to use the Grafana MCP over an Azure Managed Grafana instance, which authenticates with my Entra account, but it fails upon invoking the MCP commands with the following error:
```
MCP server 'grafana': An error occurred invoking 'amgmcp_datasource_list': Authorization header length 11034 exceeds maximum allowed length of 8192.
```
The issue being that I have a few too many AD Groups (but not enough to trigger the overflow yet), which causes my token to be fairly huge and go past the current 8k limit.
My understanding is that this limit happens on the Copilot side, as this exact setup is working fine in Claude Code.
### Affected version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.35.
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
The MCP is configured as such:
```json
"grafana": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://.eus.grafana.azure.com/api/azure-mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer ${GRAFANA_MCP_TOKEN}"
},
"tools": [
"*"
],
},
```
And upon opening Copilot, I'm setting the environment variable like so:
```
export GRAFANA_MCP_TOKEN=$(az account get-access-token --resource "ce34e7e5-485f-4d76-964f-b3d2b16d1e4f" --query accessToken -o tsv)
```
To get an authorization token for the managed grafana resource. The token is indeed around 11kB long.
### Expected behavior
The header length limit should be higher, to accomodate the authorization tokens that might be generated in practice by users, apparently especially users of Entra ID which can get fairly large tokens of ~11-12kB
### Additional context
_No response_
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Direção de pesquisa
Start by locating the 8192-byte authorization-header validation in the CLI's MCP request handling, then reproduce it with the Grafana configuration and token-generation command shown here. Done means realistic Entra ID tokens around 11–12 kB are accepted without the reported error and the relevant limit behavior is covered by tests.
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Avaliação
- Stack de tecnologia
- azure, shell
- Domínio
- authentication, cli
- Tipo de issue
- Bug
- Dificuldade
- 3/5
- Tempo estimado
- 1-2 dias
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- Pouca atividade
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