Ask HN: Has anybody gotten a Node.js MCP server to work with HTTP?
1 rglover 0 7/13/2025, 1:37:12 AM
Spent the day trying to set this up but no luck. Curious what others have found. It seems like there's iffy agreement on supported transports and while I did get the STDIO transport to work, ideally, I can use HTTP(S) (I'd like to just be able to deploy a standalone MCP server that I can hook into chats/apps/etc).
From what I can tell, this is so new that few clients really support the streaming HTTP stuff. The SSE-alternative isn't terribly clear either (and apparently has been deprecated).
Am I being a dum dum or is this just so bleeding edge that it's riddled with issues and confusion? There's a mishmash of answers and only STDIO seems to be stable/working.
Everything I tried was a dud.
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