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hermes-agent/tests/tools/test_mcp_sse_fallback.py
teknium1 f0c26f0554 fix(mcp): name the HTTP status, URL and body behind "Server returned an error response"
mcp >= 2.0's Streamable HTTP client folds any non-2xx whose body it cannot parse
as a JSON-RPC error into the opaque `-32603 Server returned an error response`.
Hermes printed that text verbatim in the SSE-fallback warning and in the
"both transports failed" ConnectionError, so users saw no status, no URL and
none of the server's own words (e.g. `400 {"code":-32020,"message":"Unsupported
MCP-Protocol-Version"}`) and had to reach for curl to learn what the server
actually said (#114350, #113359).

- `_make_http_rejection_recorder`: response hook on the owned SDK-httpx client
  that remembers the last 4xx/5xx (status, method, URL, head of the body; SSE
  bodies are never read). Sibling of the redirect-header stripper hook.
- `_describe_http_failure`: appends that detail only when the root cause is
  the SDK's opaque -32603 text, so a real JSON-RPC error or an httpx status
  error is never duplicated.
- `_run_http`: the fallback warning and both raise paths (both-transports
  ConnectionError; the no-fallback re-raise after a proven session, strict
  redirect headers or a non-rejection) carry the detail. Debug-logs the
  endpoint each connect attempt uses.
- Docs: troubleshooting entry for reading the new message.

Verified live against a real Streamable HTTP server (`hermes mcp test`, temp
HERMES_HOME): base prints `Streamable HTTP: Server returned an error response`;
fixed head prints `... (HTTP 400 from POST http://127.0.0.1:PORT/mcp:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":null,"error":{"code":-32020,...}})`. Control: a 400
served as application/json already surfaces the JSON-RPC message and gets no
appendix; servers negotiating `initialize` down to 2025-06-18 (fixture and a
real FastMCP on mcp 1.12.4) connect and list tools on base and fix alike — the
pinned mcp 2.0.0 stamps the negotiated version on every post-handshake request
(wire-recorded), so the sticky seed in `_run_http` is not the cause of the
reported 400 and stays as designed (#14816).

Co-authored-by: JoaoMarcos44 <joaomarcosdias444@gmail.com>
2026-09-18 12:48:42 -07:00

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"""Invariant tests: automatic Streamable HTTP -> SSE transport fallback (#53676, #104343).
An SSE-only MCP server rejects the Streamable HTTP ``initialize`` POST (400-family status,
or the SDK's opaque -32603 "Server returned an error response"); the client must retry over
SSE on the initial connect only — never on reconnect after a proven session, never on
timeout, and a both-transports failure must say so actionably.
"""
import asyncio
import httpx
import pytest
from tools.mcp_tool import MCPServerTask
def _http_400(status=400):
request = httpx.Request("POST", "http://127.0.0.1:1/mcp")
return httpx.HTTPStatusError("Bad Request", request=request,
response=httpx.Response(status, request=request))
class _SdkInternalError(Exception):
"""Shape of mcp.shared.exceptions.MCPError for an opaque initialize rejection."""
def __init__(self):
super().__init__("Server returned an error response")
self.error = type("E", (), {"code": -32603})()
def _task(monkeypatch, http_exc, sse_result="shutdown", sse_exc=None):
"""MCPServerTask whose transports are recorded fakes: HTTP raises, SSE serves or raises."""
task = MCPServerTask("t")
task._config = {}
calls = []
async def fake_serve(self, cm, label, timeout):
calls.append(label)
if label != "SSE":
raise http_exc
if sse_exc is not None:
raise sse_exc
self._ever_connected = True
return sse_result
monkeypatch.setattr(MCPServerTask, "_serve_transport", fake_serve)
monkeypatch.setattr(MCPServerTask, "_streamable_http_transport", lambda self, *a, **k: object())
monkeypatch.setattr(MCPServerTask, "_sse_transport", lambda self, *a, **k: object())
monkeypatch.setattr(MCPServerTask, "_build_oauth_auth", lambda self, *a: None)
return task, calls
_CONFIG = {"url": "http://127.0.0.1:1/mcp", "connect_timeout": 1}
@pytest.mark.parametrize("exc", [_http_400(), _http_400(405),
ExceptionGroup("g", [_SdkInternalError()])])
def test_sse_only_server_connects_via_fallback(monkeypatch, exc):
"""Initial connect: a Streamable HTTP rejection falls back to SSE and serves; the latch
routes subsequent reconnects straight to SSE without re-trying Streamable HTTP."""
task, calls = _task(monkeypatch, exc)
assert asyncio.run(task._run_http(dict(_CONFIG))) == "shutdown"
assert calls[-1] == "SSE" and len(calls) == 2
assert asyncio.run(task._run_http(dict(_CONFIG))) == "shutdown" # reconnect after latch
assert calls[2:] == ["SSE"]
@pytest.mark.parametrize("exc,ever_connected", [
(_http_400(), True), # reconnect after a proven session: never mask the 400
(asyncio.TimeoutError(), False), # timeout is not a transport mismatch
(_http_400(500), False), # 5xx is a broken server, not SSE-only
])
def test_no_fallback_on_reconnect_timeout_or_server_error(monkeypatch, exc, ever_connected):
task, calls = _task(monkeypatch, exc)
task._ever_connected = ever_connected
with pytest.raises(type(exc)):
asyncio.run(task._run_http(dict(_CONFIG)))
assert "SSE" not in calls
def test_both_transports_failing_names_both_and_suggests_config(monkeypatch):
task, calls = _task(monkeypatch, _http_400(), sse_exc=ConnectionRefusedError("no sse"))
with pytest.raises(ConnectionError, match="both Streamable HTTP and SSE.*transport: sse"):
asyncio.run(task._run_http(dict(_CONFIG)))
assert calls == ["HTTP", "SSE"] or calls == ["legacy HTTP", "SSE"]
assert task._sse_fallback is False # failed fallback must not latch
def test_opaque_sdk_rejection_is_reported_with_the_servers_status_and_body(monkeypatch, caplog):
"""mcp >= 2.0 folds a non-JSON 4xx into ``-32603 Server returned an error response``; the
warning and the both-transports ConnectionError must still name the HTTP status, the URL that
was requested and the body the server sent (#114350, #113359). A root that already carries the
status (httpx ``HTTPStatusError``) is left alone — no duplicated detail."""
from tools.mcp_tool_errors import _make_http_rejection_recorder
from tools.mcp_tool import sdk_httpx
httpx2 = sdk_httpx()
body = '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":{"code":-32020,"message":"Unsupported MCP-Protocol-Version"}}'
async def _real_client_roundtrip(status, content_type):
"""The recorder on a real SDK-httpx client, through the streaming API the SDK uses; the
SDK's own later ``aread()`` must still see the bytes."""
sink: dict = {}
transport = httpx2.MockTransport(
lambda req: httpx2.Response(status, text=body, headers={"content-type": content_type}))
async with httpx2.AsyncClient(transport=transport, event_hooks={
"response": [_make_http_rejection_recorder(sink)]}) as client:
async with client.stream("POST", "http://127.0.0.1:1/mcp", json={}) as resp:
assert (await resp.aread()).decode() == body
return sink
assert asyncio.run(_real_client_roundtrip(200, "application/json")) == {} # 2xx: nothing recorded
recorded = asyncio.run(_real_client_roundtrip(400, "text/plain; charset=utf-8"))
assert recorded == {"status": 400, "method": "POST", "url": "http://127.0.0.1:1/mcp", "body": body}
def _connect_sees(rejection):
task, _calls = _task(monkeypatch, ExceptionGroup("g", [_SdkInternalError()]),
sse_exc=ConnectionRefusedError("no sse"))
monkeypatch.setattr(MCPServerTask, "_streamable_http_transport",
lambda self, *a, **k: self._http_rejection.update(rejection) or object())
with pytest.raises(ConnectionError) as info:
asyncio.run(task._run_http(dict(_CONFIG)))
return str(info.value)
with caplog.at_level("WARNING", logger="tools.mcp_tool"):
message = _connect_sees(recorded)
detail = "Server returned an error response (HTTP 400 from POST http://127.0.0.1:1/mcp: " + body + ")"
assert detail in message and "SSE: no sse" in message
assert any(detail in rec.getMessage() for rec in caplog.records), caplog.text
# No rejection observed (the hook never fired): the SDK text stands alone, no fabricated detail.
assert "Streamable HTTP: Server returned an error response; SSE" in _connect_sees({})
def test_opaque_rejection_without_fallback_surfaces_the_status(monkeypatch):
"""After a proven session the SSE fallback is off; the opaque SDK error still leaves ``_run_http``
naming the recorded rejection instead of the bare ``Server returned an error response``."""
task, calls = _task(monkeypatch, ExceptionGroup("g", [_SdkInternalError()]))
task._ever_connected = True
monkeypatch.setattr(MCPServerTask, "_streamable_http_transport", lambda self, *a, **k: self._http_rejection.update(
status=503, method="POST", url="http://127.0.0.1:1/mcp", body="upstream down") or object())
with pytest.raises(ConnectionError, match=r"HTTP 503 from POST http://127\.0\.0\.1:1/mcp: upstream down"):
asyncio.run(task._run_http(dict(_CONFIG)))
assert "SSE" not in calls