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Isn't the MCP protocol simply a JSON REST API? You can use any lib that does HTTP requests to access a server or use any HTTP framework to make a server.
no... turns out MCP servers are run and downloaded using mainly npx and stuff. I would LOVE it if it were just a rest api. But nope... because stuff like file access is also possible! So that data obv can't leave ur PC...
Json messages passed through stdio. There are also SSE servers that will run over http. It's more complicated than rest since you use http to open a similar json messaging channel