Stateful connection is intermittent.

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
csharp, kubernetes
Domain
api, backend, distributed-systems

Research direction

Read docs/concepts/transports/transports.md at the Streamable HTTP server section, then reproduce the stateful setup in a local Kubernetes cluster using Postman MCP or @modelcontextprotocol/inspector. Compare behavior with and without HttpServerSessionMode.Stateless; done means the stateful server connects successfully and consistently.

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Description

bug

Describe the bug
Without o.SessionMode = HttpServerSessionMode.Stateless; or with the line commented out, the connection sometimes succeed and sometimes failed. I don't believe this should cause the connection to fail at all since otherwise, the product won't be able to support the stateful connection as claimed in https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk/blob/main/docs/concepts/transports/transports.md#streamable-http-server-aspnet-core

Set SessionMode = HttpServerSessionMode.Stateful explicitly when your server needs stateful sessions for unsolicited notifications, resource subscriptions, or per-client isolation.

and therefore, it is a BUG.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Create a streaming HTTP MCP server and deploy to a k8s cluster. Local cluster is fine.
  2. The server should be created without o.SessionMode = HttpServerSessionMode.Stateless;. So it is a stateful connection.
  3. Try to connect to the service either from Postman MCP client OR npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector

Expected behavior
Successful connection 100%

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