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27 changes: 19 additions & 8 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ await server.connect(transport);
For remote servers, start a web server with a Server-Sent Events (SSE) endpoint, and a separate endpoint for the client to send its messages to:

```typescript
import express from "express";
import express, { Request, Response } from "express";
import { McpServer } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/mcp.js";
import { SSEServerTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/sse.js";

Expand All @@ -224,16 +224,27 @@ const server = new McpServer({

const app = express();

app.get("/sse", async (req, res) => {
const transport = new SSEServerTransport("/messages", res);
// to support multiple simultaneous connections we have a lookup object from
// sessionId to transport
const transports: {[sessionId: string]: SSEServerTransport} = {};

app.get("/sse", async (_: Request, res: Response) => {
const transport = new SSEServerTransport('/messages', res);
transports[transport.sessionId] = transport;
res.on("close", () => {
delete transports[transport.sessionId];
});
await server.connect(transport);
});

app.post("/messages", async (req, res) => {
// Note: to support multiple simultaneous connections, these messages will
// need to be routed to a specific matching transport. (This logic isn't
// implemented here, for simplicity.)
await transport.handlePostMessage(req, res);
app.post("/messages", async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
const sessionId = req.query.sessionId as string;
const transport = transports[sessionId];
if (transport) {
await transport.handlePostMessage(req, res);
} else {
res.status(400).send('No transport found for sessionId');
}
});

app.listen(3001);
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