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Learn Model Context Protocol with Python

You're reading from   Learn Model Context Protocol with Python Build agentic systems in Python with the new standard for AI capabilities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781806103232
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to the Model Context Protocol 2. Explaining the Model Context Protocol FREE CHAPTER 3. Building and Testing Servers 4. Building SSE Servers 5. Streamable HTTP 6. Advanced Servers 7. Building Clients 8. Consuming Servers 9. Sampling 10. Elicitation 11. Securing Your Application 12. Bringing MCP Apps to Production 13. Unlock Your Book’s Exclusive Benefits 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index
Appendix: Building for the Web with Modern Python

Testing out resumability

There’s actually an example implementation in the SDK for resumability. Let’s try that code out and see how it differs. You can find a simplified version of it at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Model-Context-Protocol-with-Python/blob/main/Chapter05/solutions/resumability/README.md.

What the code does is define a server with one tool, process-files. Upon calling the tool, you get three notifications and one final response. The easiest way to test the server out is by using cURL. With cURL, we can perform the handshake process, call a tool, and even do the needed bespoke request so it replays events. Let’s take it step by step:

  1. Start the server first.
  2. Start a second terminal and call curl with the following payload to exchange what features the client and the server both have:
    curl -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp" -H "Accept: text/event-stream, application/json" -H "Content...
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