Backport of #2925 to the 1.x line, plus a small compat shim so the fix holds on pydantic < 2.12 (which 1.x still supports).

Motivation and Context

RFC 8707's resource parameter must be the protected resource's identifier byte-for-byte. On 1.x a path-less resource from the server's Protected Resource Metadata (http://host:port) is parsed into AnyHttpUrl and re-serialised as http://host:port/, so the client sends a different identifier in the authorization and token requests (#2578). main fixed this in #2925 via url_preserve_empty_path=True on the OAuth metadata models; that was never backported.

This now matters for conformance: modelcontextprotocol/conformance#488 adds a resource-parameter-matches-prm check (FAILURE, RFC 8707 MUST) to the scored auth/metadata-var2 client scenario, and the 1.x line fails it without this change while main, go, rust, csharp and the TS SDK pass.

What's in here

1. Cherry-pick of Preserve empty URL paths on OAuth metadata models #2925 (url_preserve_empty_path=True on OAuthClientMetadata, OAuthMetadata, ProtectedResourceMetadata; the v2 migration-guide hunk is dropped since that file doesn't exist on 1.x).
2. A compat commit for pydantic 2.11: the 1.x dependency range (and the lowest-direct CI leg) still resolves pydantic 2.11, where url_preserve_empty_path is silently ignored. ProtectedResourceMetadata now records the wire string (resource_str) and OAuthContext.get_resource_url() / _validate_resource_match use it, so the resource parameter is echoed verbatim on every supported pydantic version. The config is spelled as a cast dict so the 2.11 type stubs accept it, and the cherry-picked issuer assertion is made version-tolerant.

How Has This Been Tested?

• uv run --frozen pytest tests/client/test_auth.py → 129 passed (new test test_get_resource_url_echoes_pathless_prm_resource_verbatim); ruff + pyright clean on the touched files; behaviour checked on pydantic 2.11.7 and 2.13.4.
• Conformance (modelcontextprotocol/conformance main + feat(client/auth): check the resource parameter matches the PRM-published identifier conformance#488 ), client --scenario auth/metadata-var2 --spec-version 2025-11-25 with .github/actions/conformance/client.py:
  • before (v1.x @ 8c2fa6e): resource-parameter-matches-prm FAILURE → scenario FAILED
  • after (this branch): resource-parameter-matches-prm SUCCESS, 18/18 checks, scenario PASSED; auth/metadata-default PASSED before and after.

Breaking Changes

None intended. str(prm.resource) is unchanged on pydantic < 2.12 (still normalised); code that needs the exact identifier should use the new ProtectedResourceMetadata.resource_str.

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

Checklist

• I have read the MCP Documentation
• My code follows the repository's style guidelines
• New and existing tests pass locally
• I have added appropriate error handling
• I have added or updated documentation as needed

AI Disclaimer

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