How to expose an MCP Server on the network? #300
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I built an MCP server that accesses corporate data. Everyone in the company already has Claude Desktop installed on their machines. I would like to expose this MCP server internaly https://mybigserver/mcp. This way I don't have to deploy the MCP server to 50 machines. How exactly do I do that? Does MCP work that way at all? |
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You can use the SSE transport. An example of hosting such an MCP server with ASP.NET is available here: |
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That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! Not sure if my follow up question should be a separate discussion...but, how do I secure it? Specifically on IIS, Does SSE transport provide for security? Or do I need to put it behind a security proxy of some sort? |
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From a security perspective, it's like any other endpoint you expose from ASP.NET. |
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You can use the SSE transport. An example of hosting such an MCP server with ASP.NET is available here:
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/csharp-sdk/tree/main/samples/AspNetCoreSseServer