add default MCP server URL on startup #288
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Looks good (I haven't tested yet) but should be documented in the configuration section of the README.
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@cliffhall updated the readme. Feel free to reword |
Looks good, I'm testing now. Needs an |
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@rinormaloku This is working now. Since it isn't published yet, I tested with:
Based on your example:
MCP_SERVER_URL=http://localhost:3001 node client/bin/start.jsThis doesn't work because that's not enough, it needs to be the full SSE endpoint.
MCP_SERVER_URL=http://localhost:3001/sse node client/bin/start.js
I added a note to change the README example, or better, keep it, and make it a base url, adding the endpoint in the UI.
| @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ The MCP Inspector supports the following configuration settings. To change them, | |||
| | `MCP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_RESET_ON_PROGRESS` | Reset timeout on progress notifications | true | | |||
| | `MCP_REQUEST_MAX_TOTAL_TIMEOUT` | Maximum total timeout for requests sent to the MCP server (ms) (Use with progress notifications) | 60000 | | |||
| | `MCP_PROXY_FULL_ADDRESS` | Set this if you are running the MCP Inspector Proxy on a non-default address. Example: http://10.1.1.22:5577 | "" | | |||
| | `MCP_SERVER_URL` | Set this to configure the default MCP Server to connect to on startup. Example: http://localhost:8080 | "" | | |||
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- It would be nice if this could be
MCP_SERVER_BASE_URL, and keep the examplehttp://localhost:8080. - You would need to add
/sseto it in the UI before passing it to the sidebar. - Otherwise, this needs to be the full url to an endpoint, not just the server and port.
- Note soon the
/ssepart will need to become/mcp.
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What about just changing the example? It's likely that people want to change the endpoint as well for example my.domain.com/prefix/sse
| @@ -244,6 +244,10 @@ const App = () => { | |||
| if (data.defaultArgs) { | |||
| setArgs(data.defaultArgs); | |||
| } | |||
| if (data.defaultMcpServerUrl) { | |||
| setSseUrl(data.defaultMcpServerUrl); | |||
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If this is to be the full endpoint and not just the location and port of the server, we should look at the path and see if it is /sse or /mcp and set the transport type accordingly.
| @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ const defaultEnvironment = { | |||
| ...getDefaultEnvironment(), | |||
| ...(process.env.MCP_ENV_VARS ? JSON.parse(process.env.MCP_ENV_VARS) : {}), | |||
| }; | |||
| const defaultMcpServerUrl = process.env.MCP_SERVER_URL; | |||
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Probably this environment variable should be MCP_SERVER_ENDPOINT to avoid any confusion.
Tiny change to pass the default MCP Server through the CLI, e.g.:
Makes the docs for MCP servers with SSE support a little cleaner.