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[Client] Add OAuth 2025-03-26 metadata backcompat fallback

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auth Client enhancement improves spec compliance
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Description

Context

Older MCP servers (spec revision 2025-03-26) do not publish /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource. The client must fall back to discovering OAuth metadata directly from the MCP server origin's /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server and, if missing, from the issuer derived by URL convention.

Scope

  • Order of operations when WWW-Authenticate lacks resource_metadata:
    1. Try /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource at MCP server origin.
    2. Try /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server at MCP server origin.
    3. Fall back to OIDC discovery (/.well-known/openid-configuration).
  • Track protocol revision negotiated during initialize; only enable fallback chain when the server announced 2025-03-26.

Conformance scenarios unblocked

auth/2025-03-26-oauth-metadata-backcompat, auth/2025-03-26-oauth-endpoint-fallback.

Dependencies

Blocked by: #317, #318.

Acceptance

  • Unit tests covering all fallback branches.
  • Conformance: 2 baseline scenarios pass.

cc @soyuka

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Research direction

Start by tracing the PHP client’s initialize negotiation and its handling of WWW-Authenticate when resource_metadata is absent. Implement and test the ordered discovery branches for the MCP origin and issuer-derived URL, gated on revision 2025-03-26. Verify the unit-test branches and the auth/2025-03-26-oauth-metadata-backcompat and auth/2025-03-26-oauth-endpoint-fallback conformance scenarios after blockers #317 and #318 are resolved.

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Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
api, authentication
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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