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                test: add scope priority tests for OAuth flow
              
              
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                fix: prioritize PRM endpoint scopes over OAuth metadata scopes
              
              
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                Change to the updated MCP spec where priority order is 1. Client scop…
              
              
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                Move logic from Auth Server Metadata handler to PRM handler
              
              
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                DRY up the www-authenticate header extraction
              
              
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                step-up auth flow and fix tests
              
              
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                test step-up auth flow
              
              
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see this latest change to the spec:
Are you able to update this PR to:
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Updated. Although the complete priority order is:
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Hm I don't think (1) is correct there. If we always use what's configured on the client, there's no path for upgrading scope if the initial request didn't have the correct scope.
We had some discussion in this across a few PR's (example) and in discord about similar issues.
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According to this spec https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/basic/authorization#scope-challenge-handling the step-up only happens when the server returns 403. The changes in this PR only take effect upon a 401.
I can definitely update the 401 path by not prioritizing the configured scope on the client, but the step-up logic remains unhandled in the MCP client in this SDK. I can create a separate PR for that if that makes sense
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I can make it part of this PR too considering this is already a breaking change
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working on adding step-up auth flow
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done