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Title: Is direct browser access to Remote GitHub MCP Server officially supported? Behaviour has changed recently · Issue #2342 · github/github-mcp-server · GitHub

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Description: Describe the bug I was previously able to sucessfully connect to the Remote GitHub MCP Server from a private browser client based on v1.x of the MCP TypeScript SDK. When I picked this up again recently, connection attempts were getting e...

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