Why does MCP chooses SSE as transport implementations

[lianzhilu]

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Maybe this question is silly but I really want to know why SSE is chosen over other transport protocols. Are there any details of implementation?

[tadasant]

The latest thinking on this topic is in this ongoing RFC: modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#206