Source note · Model Context Protocol transports compared
In Streamable HTTP under MCP revision 2026-07-28, long-lived change notifications are delivered on the SSE response stream of a subscriptions/listen POST, while request-scoped notifications such as notifications/progress and notifications/message flow only on the response stream of the request they relate to.
Checked 2026-09-30
- Vendor
- Model Context Protocol project
- Product
- MCP specification
- Subsystem
- Streamable HTTP transport
- Deployment
- remote-http
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- MCP revision 2026-07-28
- Checked
- 2026-09-30
Sources
- Model Context Protocol specification 2026-07-28, Streamable HTTP — Model Context Protocol project · tier 1 standards and regulators · section Receiving Messages, paragraph beginning Long-lived notification streams
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 30). Model Context Protocol transports compared: source note mcp-transport-differences-http-listen-stream. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/mcp-transport-differences-http-listen-stream
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-mcp-transport-differences-http-listen-stream,
title = {Model Context Protocol transports compared: source note mcp-transport-differences-http-listen-stream},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/mcp-transport-differences-http-listen-stream},
note = {Source note mcp-transport-differences-http-listen-stream, checked 2026-09-30}
}