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resource_url_from_server_url preserves explicit default ports

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Description

resource_url_from_server_url() lowercases the scheme/authority and removes the fragment, but it preserves an explicitly specified default port. This makes an RFC 8707 resource URL such as https://example.com:443/mcp compare unequal to the equivalent https://example.com/mcp value used by Protected Resource Metadata.

RFC 3986 section 6.2.3 treats an explicit default port as equivalent to an omitted port. Pydantic also normalizes the metadata URL by dropping the default port. The SDK currently canonicalizes only one side, so check_resource_allowed() can reject an otherwise equivalent resource and abort OAuth resource validation.

Expected: HTTP port 80 and HTTPS port 443 are removed during canonicalization; non-default ports remain unchanged.

Example code
from mcp.shared.auth_utils import check_resource_allowed, resource_url_from_server_url

canonical = resource_url_from_server_url("https://example.com:443/mcp")
print(canonical)  # current: https://example.com:443/mcp
print(check_resource_allowed(canonical, "https://example.com/mcp"))  # current: False
Environment
  • Python 3.12
  • MCP Python SDK main at 6e30452

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Start at resource_url_from_server_url() in mcp.shared.auth_utils and reproduce the example with explicit default and non-default ports. Confirm that HTTP 80 and HTTPS 443 are removed while non-default ports remain, and verify that check_resource_allowed() accepts equivalent canonical resource URLs.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
authentication, security
Issue type
Bug
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1-3 hours
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