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fix(server): bound the request body read by the streamable HTTP server - #1092
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38-38: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winMake the unreadable-body case verify an unread body.
The current case sends readable bytes through
httptest.NewServer. It can return 413 even ifServeHTTPreads the body before rejecting it. Use an erroring reader and callServeHTTPdirectly. Assert that the reader receives noReadcall and that the response is 413.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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ServeHTTP read every POST body with io.ReadAll before any check, so a client could make the server hold arbitrary memory. The body is now read up to a bound, 4 MiB by default (WithMaxRequestBodyBytes); a larger one is answered 413. Content-Length is not trusted, except that one over the bound is refused unread.
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38-38: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert that an oversized declared body remains unread.
The current test checks only the 413 response. That assertion also passes if
ServeHTTPreads the body before rejecting it. Add a directServeHTTPtest with a counting reader, setContentLengthabove the limit, and assert zero reads.Suggested test
func TestStreamableHTTP_RequestBodyBoundDoesNotTrustContentLength(t *testing.T) { server := NewStreamableHTTPServer(NewMCPServer("t", "1"), WithMaxRequestBodyBytes(1024)) req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/mcp", io.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader(bytes.Repeat([]byte("x"), 2048)))) @@ assert.Equal(t, http.StatusRequestEntityTooLarge, rr.Code) } +func TestStreamableHTTP_RejectsDeclaredOversizedBodyWithoutReading(t *testing.T) { + server := NewStreamableHTTPServer(NewMCPServer("t", "1"), WithMaxRequestBodyBytes(1024)) + reader := &countingReader{Reader: bytes.NewReader(bytes.Repeat([]byte("x"), 2048))} + req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/mcp", reader) + req.ContentLength = 2048 + req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json") + rr := httptest.NewRecorder() + + server.ServeHTTP(rr, req) + + assert.Equal(t, http.StatusRequestEntityTooLarge, rr.Code) + assert.Zero(t, reader.n) +} + // countingReader counts the bytes it hands out. type countingReader struct {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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countingReader for a request whose ContentLength exceeds the limit; assert it
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The configurable 4 MiB default looks reasonable. Please add user-facing docs/release notes covering the new default, how to raise or disable it (zero/negative), and that direct Handle callers must bound reads themselves. |
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Please strengthen the oversized Content-Length regression with a counting or fail-on-read body, asserting zero reads before the 413 response. |
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@pbednarcik Thanks for this PR — the body-size bound looks like a solid fix. The only thing blocking it right now is that it has merge conflicts with the base branch, so could you rebase (or merge main) and push an update? CI is otherwise passing. |

ServeHTTPreads every POST body withio.ReadAllbefore the Content-Type check or any authentication, so an unauthenticated client can make the server hold arbitrary memory: a 128 MiBtext/plainPOST allocated about 268 MiB here before being answered 400.The body is now read up to a bound:
DefaultMaxRequestBodyBytes(4 MiB), settable withWithMaxRequestBodyBytes; zero or less removes it. A body over the bound is answered 413 with a JSON-RPCINVALID_REQUESTerror. The bound is on the bytes actually read (readBounded, anio.ReadAllthat stops at the bound without allocating a reader per request), so a staleContent-Lengthfrom body-replacing middleware cannot bypass it; aContent-Lengthalready over the bound is refused unread.Handletakes a body the caller has already read and bounds.The default is the one policy choice: 4 MiB is well above a normal JSON-RPC message but refuses very large tool arguments. A larger default, or opt-in only, is a one-line change if you prefer.
Tests cover bodies under, at and over the bound, chunked bodies, the default and disabled bounds, an unreadable body, a stale
Content-Length, andreadBoundedat its edges (limits 1 toMaxInt64, data with EOF, byte-at-a-time reads, never offering the reader more than the bound plus one byte).Summary by CodeRabbit
Tracking issue
Closes #1107.