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Feb 15, 2026 · Backend Development

How to Properly Retrieve HTTP Request Headers in a Spring AI MCP Server

This article explains why the previous custom WebMvcStreamableServerTransportProvider approach is fragile, introduces Spring AI's standard TransportContextExtractor, and provides step‑by‑step code and screenshots showing how to configure the extractor, capture ServerRequest, and read HTTP headers, URL, query parameters, and other request data in an MCP Server.