In MCP revision 2026-07-28 a client cancels a subscriptions/listen subscription by closing the SSE stream on Streamable HTTP, or by sending notifications/cancelled referencing the subscriptions/listen request ID on stdio.

Checked 2026-09-30

Vendor
Model Context Protocol project
Product
MCP specification
Subsystem
subscriptions
Deployment
local-subprocess, remote-http
Region
not restricted
Release range
MCP revision 2026-07-28
Checked
2026-09-30

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 30). Model Context Protocol transports compared: source note mcp-transport-differences-listen-cancel-by-transport. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/mcp-transport-differences-listen-cancel-by-transport

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-mcp-transport-differences-listen-cancel-by-transport,
  title  = {Model Context Protocol transports compared: source note mcp-transport-differences-listen-cancel-by-transport},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/mcp-transport-differences-listen-cancel-by-transport},
  note   = {Source note mcp-transport-differences-listen-cancel-by-transport, checked 2026-09-30}
}

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