Guidance on migrating from SSE to Streamable HTTP in MCP SDK C#

[maximilianosilva]

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Hello,

I'm working with the MCP SDK for C# and have a question about migrating my transport from Server-Sent Events (SSE) to Streamable HTTP.

My current server-side configuration in Program.cs is:

builder.Services.AddMcpServer()
    .WithHttpTransport()
    .WithToolsFromAssembly();

This works perfectly. It exposes the http://localhost:3004/sse endpoint, and my MCP client connects to it successfully.

Now, I want to update my implementation to use the new Streamable HTTP transport. I assumed that by using the same configuration, the base endpoint (http://localhost:3004) would work for the streamable connection, but my client fails to recognize it.

Could you please clarify the following?

• Is there an additional or different configuration required on the server-side to enable Streamable HTTP instead of SSE?
• What is the correct URI that the MCP client should be pointed to for a Streamable HTTP connection?

Any examples or documentation on this transition would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[khanmubeen]

Hi , @maximilianosilva
Would you able to hint with my setup ->
// Register MCP server over stdio transport for agent integration.
builder.Services
.AddMcpServer()
.WithStdioServerTransport() // local debuggin over stdio with inspector
.WithHttpServerTransport(option =>
{
option.Url = new [] { "http://localhost:5280/mcp" };
}) // HTTP transport for dev tunnel
.WithToolsFromAssembly(); // discovers McpHubSpotTools

'IMcpServerBuilder' does not contain a definition for 'WithHttpServerTransport'
though documentation ->
https://modelcontextprotocol.github.io/csharp-sdk/api/ModelContextProtocol.AspNetCore.html?

my cs project ->
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net9.0 ...