alt Hacker News> With the 2026-07-28 release, a remote MCP server is now no different from any other HTTP workload
Good. Introducing a bespoke new protocol was one of the more bone-headed things MCP did on initial release.
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Jhater • today at 3:04 PM
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> With the 2026-07-28 release, a remote MCP server is now no different from any other HTTP workload
Good. Introducing a bespoke new protocol was one of the more bone-headed things MCP did on initial release.
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It's unreal how bad the initial rollout was between HTTP/streaming and stdio, bearer auth and OAuth. Virtually every client/MCP server pair had a different portion of that matrix implemented.