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@sorech

Describe the bug
When the RMCP client performs OAuth metadata discovery, it stops immediately if the first candidate /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server URL returns non-JSON content (e.g., an HTML login page). The JSON parse error is treated as fatal, so the client never tries the rest of the RFC 8414 fallback URLs.

To Reproduce

  1. Register a streamable MCP server whose default well-known URL (e.g., https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/) returns HTML instead of JSON, but whose canonical fallback https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returns valid metadata.
  2. Run codex mcp add --url https://example.com/mcp/default server-name with experimental_use_rmcp_client = true.
  3. Observe that Codex reports Failed to parse metadata and bails out without attempting the fallback URL.

Expected behavior
If a candidate well-known URL returns malformed JSON, the RMCP client should log the failure and continue trying the next fallback URL (per RFC 8414), eventually succeeding when it reaches the canonical JSON endpoint.

Logs
Added global MCP server 'server-name'.
Detected OAuth support. Starting OAuth flow…
Error: Metadata error: Failed to parse metadata: error decoding response body

Additional context
Minimal fix: treat parse failures as “no metadata here” so the loop keeps going:

match self.fetch_authorization_metadata(&discovery_url).await {
Ok(Some(metadata)) => return Ok(Some(metadata)),
Ok(None) => continue,
Err(_) => continue, // <— new branch with swallow parse errors, try next candidate
}

Alternatively, inside fetch_authorization_metadata, convert JSON parse errors into Ok(None) after logging the body.
Either approach lets discovery fall through to the next candidate URL.

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      OAuth discovery aborts after first malformed well-known URL candidate #544

      Description

      @sorech

      Describe the bug
      When the RMCP client performs OAuth metadata discovery, it stops immediately if the first candidate /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server URL returns non-JSON content (e.g., an HTML login page). The JSON parse error is treated as fatal, so the client never tries the rest of the RFC 8414 fallback URLs.

      To Reproduce

      1. Register a streamable MCP server whose default well-known URL (e.g., https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/) returns HTML instead of JSON, but whose canonical fallback https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returns valid metadata.
      2. Run codex mcp add --url https://example.com/mcp/default server-name with experimental_use_rmcp_client = true.
      3. Observe that Codex reports Failed to parse metadata and bails out without attempting the fallback URL.

      Expected behavior
      If a candidate well-known URL returns malformed JSON, the RMCP client should log the failure and continue trying the next fallback URL (per RFC 8414), eventually succeeding when it reaches the canonical JSON endpoint.

      Logs
      Added global MCP server 'server-name'.
      Detected OAuth support. Starting OAuth flow…
      Error: Metadata error: Failed to parse metadata: error decoding response body

      Additional context
      Minimal fix: treat parse failures as “no metadata here” so the loop keeps going:

      match self.fetch_authorization_metadata(&discovery_url).await {
      Ok(Some(metadata)) => return Ok(Some(metadata)),
      Ok(None) => continue,
      Err(_) => continue, // <— new branch with swallow parse errors, try next candidate
      }

      Alternatively, inside fetch_authorization_metadata, convert JSON parse errors into Ok(None) after logging the body.
      Either approach lets discovery fall through to the next candidate URL.

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          OAuth discovery aborts after first malformed well-known URL candidate #544

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          @sorech

          Describe the bug
          When the RMCP client performs OAuth metadata discovery, it stops immediately if the first candidate /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server URL returns non-JSON content (e.g., an HTML login page). The JSON parse error is treated as fatal, so the client never tries the rest of the RFC 8414 fallback URLs.

          To Reproduce

          1. Register a streamable MCP server whose default well-known URL (e.g., https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/) returns HTML instead of JSON, but whose canonical fallback https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returns valid metadata.
          2. Run codex mcp add --url https://example.com/mcp/default server-name with experimental_use_rmcp_client = true.
          3. Observe that Codex reports Failed to parse metadata and bails out without attempting the fallback URL.

          Expected behavior
          If a candidate well-known URL returns malformed JSON, the RMCP client should log the failure and continue trying the next fallback URL (per RFC 8414), eventually succeeding when it reaches the canonical JSON endpoint.

          Logs
          Added global MCP server 'server-name'.
          Detected OAuth support. Starting OAuth flow…
          Error: Metadata error: Failed to parse metadata: error decoding response body

          Additional context
          Minimal fix: treat parse failures as “no metadata here” so the loop keeps going:

          match self.fetch_authorization_metadata(&discovery_url).await {
          Ok(Some(metadata)) => return Ok(Some(metadata)),
          Ok(None) => continue,
          Err(_) => continue, // <— new branch with swallow parse errors, try next candidate
          }

          Alternatively, inside fetch_authorization_metadata, convert JSON parse errors into Ok(None) after logging the body.
          Either approach lets discovery fall through to the next candidate URL.

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              OAuth discovery aborts after first malformed well-known URL candidate #544

              Description

              @sorech

              Describe the bug
              When the RMCP client performs OAuth metadata discovery, it stops immediately if the first candidate /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server URL returns non-JSON content (e.g., an HTML login page). The JSON parse error is treated as fatal, so the client never tries the rest of the RFC 8414 fallback URLs.

              To Reproduce

              1. Register a streamable MCP server whose default well-known URL (e.g., https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/) returns HTML instead of JSON, but whose canonical fallback https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returns valid metadata.
              2. Run codex mcp add --url https://example.com/mcp/default server-name with experimental_use_rmcp_client = true.
              3. Observe that Codex reports Failed to parse metadata and bails out without attempting the fallback URL.

              Expected behavior
              If a candidate well-known URL returns malformed JSON, the RMCP client should log the failure and continue trying the next fallback URL (per RFC 8414), eventually succeeding when it reaches the canonical JSON endpoint.

              Logs
              Added global MCP server 'server-name'.
              Detected OAuth support. Starting OAuth flow…
              Error: Metadata error: Failed to parse metadata: error decoding response body

              Additional context
              Minimal fix: treat parse failures as “no metadata here” so the loop keeps going:

              match self.fetch_authorization_metadata(&discovery_url).await {
              Ok(Some(metadata)) => return Ok(Some(metadata)),
              Ok(None) => continue,
              Err(_) => continue, // <— new branch with swallow parse errors, try next candidate
              }

              Alternatively, inside fetch_authorization_metadata, convert JSON parse errors into Ok(None) after logging the body.
              Either approach lets discovery fall through to the next candidate URL.

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                  OAuth discovery aborts after first malformed well-known URL candidate #544

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                  @sorech

                  Describe the bug
                  When the RMCP client performs OAuth metadata discovery, it stops immediately if the first candidate /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server URL returns non-JSON content (e.g., an HTML login page). The JSON parse error is treated as fatal, so the client never tries the rest of the RFC 8414 fallback URLs.

                  To Reproduce

                  1. Register a streamable MCP server whose default well-known URL (e.g., https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/) returns HTML instead of JSON, but whose canonical fallback https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returns valid metadata.
                  2. Run codex mcp add --url https://example.com/mcp/default server-name with experimental_use_rmcp_client = true.
                  3. Observe that Codex reports Failed to parse metadata and bails out without attempting the fallback URL.

                  Expected behavior
                  If a candidate well-known URL returns malformed JSON, the RMCP client should log the failure and continue trying the next fallback URL (per RFC 8414), eventually succeeding when it reaches the canonical JSON endpoint.

                  Logs
                  Added global MCP server 'server-name'.
                  Detected OAuth support. Starting OAuth flow…
                  Error: Metadata error: Failed to parse metadata: error decoding response body

                  Additional context
                  Minimal fix: treat parse failures as “no metadata here” so the loop keeps going:

                  match self.fetch_authorization_metadata(&discovery_url).await {
                  Ok(Some(metadata)) => return Ok(Some(metadata)),
                  Ok(None) => continue,
                  Err(_) => continue, // <— new branch with swallow parse errors, try next candidate
                  }

                  Alternatively, inside fetch_authorization_metadata, convert JSON parse errors into Ok(None) after logging the body.
                  Either approach lets discovery fall through to the next candidate URL.

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                      Describe the bug
                      When the RMCP client performs OAuth metadata discovery, it stops immediately if the first candidate /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server URL returns non-JSON content (e.g., an HTML login page). The JSON parse error is treated as fatal, so the client never tries the rest of the RFC 8414 fallback URLs.

                      To Reproduce

                      1. Register a streamable MCP server whose default well-known URL (e.g., https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/) returns HTML instead of JSON, but whose canonical fallback https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returns valid metadata.
                      2. Run codex mcp add --url https://example.com/mcp/default server-name with experimental_use_rmcp_client = true.
                      3. Observe that Codex reports Failed to parse metadata and bails out without attempting the fallback URL.

                      Expected behavior
                      If a candidate well-known URL returns malformed JSON, the RMCP client should log the failure and continue trying the next fallback URL (per RFC 8414), eventually succeeding when it reaches the canonical JSON endpoint.

                      Logs
                      Added global MCP server 'server-name'.
                      Detected OAuth support. Starting OAuth flow…
                      Error: Metadata error: Failed to parse metadata: error decoding response body

                      Additional context
                      Minimal fix: treat parse failures as “no metadata here” so the loop keeps going:

                      match self.fetch_authorization_metadata(&discovery_url).await {
                      Ok(Some(metadata)) => return Ok(Some(metadata)),
                      Ok(None) => continue,
                      Err(_) => continue, // <— new branch with swallow parse errors, try next candidate
                      }

                      Alternatively, inside fetch_authorization_metadata, convert JSON parse errors into Ok(None) after logging the body.
                      Either approach lets discovery fall through to the next candidate URL.

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                          Description

                          @sorech

                          Describe the bug
                          When the RMCP client performs OAuth metadata discovery, it stops immediately if the first candidate /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server URL returns non-JSON content (e.g., an HTML login page). The JSON parse error is treated as fatal, so the client never tries the rest of the RFC 8414 fallback URLs.

                          To Reproduce

                          1. Register a streamable MCP server whose default well-known URL (e.g., https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/) returns HTML instead of JSON, but whose canonical fallback https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returns valid metadata.
                          2. Run codex mcp add --url https://example.com/mcp/default server-name with experimental_use_rmcp_client = true.
                          3. Observe that Codex reports Failed to parse metadata and bails out without attempting the fallback URL.

                          Expected behavior
                          If a candidate well-known URL returns malformed JSON, the RMCP client should log the failure and continue trying the next fallback URL (per RFC 8414), eventually succeeding when it reaches the canonical JSON endpoint.

                          Logs
                          Added global MCP server 'server-name'.
                          Detected OAuth support. Starting OAuth flow…
                          Error: Metadata error: Failed to parse metadata: error decoding response body

                          Additional context
                          Minimal fix: treat parse failures as “no metadata here” so the loop keeps going:

                          match self.fetch_authorization_metadata(&discovery_url).await {
                          Ok(Some(metadata)) => return Ok(Some(metadata)),
                          Ok(None) => continue,
                          Err(_) => continue, // <— new branch with swallow parse errors, try next candidate
                          }

                          Alternatively, inside fetch_authorization_metadata, convert JSON parse errors into Ok(None) after logging the body.
                          Either approach lets discovery fall through to the next candidate URL.

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                              Describe the bug
                              When the RMCP client performs OAuth metadata discovery, it stops immediately if the first candidate /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server URL returns non-JSON content (e.g., an HTML login page). The JSON parse error is treated as fatal, so the client never tries the rest of the RFC 8414 fallback URLs.

                              To Reproduce

                              1. Register a streamable MCP server whose default well-known URL (e.g., https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/) returns HTML instead of JSON, but whose canonical fallback https://example.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returns valid metadata.
                              2. Run codex mcp add --url https://example.com/mcp/default server-name with experimental_use_rmcp_client = true.
                              3. Observe that Codex reports Failed to parse metadata and bails out without attempting the fallback URL.

                              Expected behavior
                              If a candidate well-known URL returns malformed JSON, the RMCP client should log the failure and continue trying the next fallback URL (per RFC 8414), eventually succeeding when it reaches the canonical JSON endpoint.

                              Logs
                              Added global MCP server 'server-name'.
                              Detected OAuth support. Starting OAuth flow…
                              Error: Metadata error: Failed to parse metadata: error decoding response body

                              Additional context
                              Minimal fix: treat parse failures as “no metadata here” so the loop keeps going:

                              match self.fetch_authorization_metadata(&discovery_url).await {
                              Ok(Some(metadata)) => return Ok(Some(metadata)),
                              Ok(None) => continue,
                              Err(_) => continue, // <— new branch with swallow parse errors, try next candidate
                              }

                              Alternatively, inside fetch_authorization_metadata, convert JSON parse errors into Ok(None) after logging the body.
                              Either approach lets discovery fall through to the next candidate URL.

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