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Title: SEP-2166: Out-of-Band Resource Access via HTTPS URLs by abrookins · Pull Request #2166 · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol · GitHub

Open Graph Title: SEP-2166: Out-of-Band Resource Access via HTTPS URLs by abrookins · Pull Request #2166 · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol

X Title: SEP-2166: Out-of-Band Resource Access via HTTPS URLs by abrookins · Pull Request #2166 · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol

Description: Specification and documentation for the Model Context Protocol - SEP-2166: Out-of-Band Resource Access via HTTPS URLs by abrookins · Pull Request #2166 · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol

Open Graph Description: Proposes adding optional httpUrl and httpUrlExpiresAt fields to the Resource interface, enabling MCP servers to provide direct HTTPS access URLs alongside the canonical MCP resource URI. This allow...

X Description: Proposes adding optional httpUrl and httpUrlExpiresAt fields to the Resource interface, enabling MCP servers to provide direct HTTPS access URLs alongside the canonical MCP resource URI. This allow...

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