auth: bind refreshing token source to a background context, not the request ctx (#988)

## Problem

`AuthorizationCodeHandler.exchangeAuthorizationCode` builds the
long-lived token source from the **request context** passed to
`Authorize()`:

```go
clientCtx := context.WithValue(ctx, oauth2.HTTPClient, h.config.Client)
...
h.tokenSource = cfg.TokenSource(clientCtx, token)
```

`golang.org/x/oauth2` captures that context and reuses it for **every**
future refresh:
- `oauth2.go`: `Config.TokenSource(ctx, …)` stores `ctx` in
`tokenRefresher{ctx}`
- `tokenRefresher.Token()` (no ctx arg) calls `retrieveToken(tf.ctx, …)`
- `internal/token.go`: `ContextClient(ctx).Do(req.WithContext(ctx))`

`Authorize()` is normally invoked from a request- or connect-scoped
context — e.g. the streamable client transport calls it during
`setMCPHeaders`/`initialize`, and that context is cancelled once the
operation completes. The cached access token works until expiry; the
**first refresh after expiry** then fails instantly with `context
canceled`, before any HTTP request is sent. The connection can no longer
refresh.

`setMCPHeaders` only re-invokes `Authorize()` for an `invalid_grant`
`oauth2.RetrieveError` (#917). A `context canceled` is not a
`RetrieveError`, so it is never recovered — the connection is wedged
until the client reconnects.

### Reproduce

1. Connect a `StreamableClientTransport` with an
`AuthorizationCodeHandler` to a server whose `initialize` returns 401
(so `Authorize()` runs during connect, under the connect context).
2. Let the connect context be cancelled after connect returns (the
common pattern: a `context.WithTimeout(parent, …)` + `defer cancel()`
bounding the interactive flow).
3. Wait for the access token to expire and issue a request.
4. Every request fails with `Post "<token endpoint>": context canceled`
and `dur≈0` — the refresh never hits the network.

## Fix

A token source outlives the request that created it, so bind its
refreshes to `context.Background()` (still carrying the configured HTTP
client via `oauth2.HTTPClient`). The one-shot token exchange keeps using
the request context.

```go
refreshCtx := context.WithValue(context.Background(), oauth2.HTTPClient, h.config.Client)
h.tokenSource = cfg.TokenSource(refreshCtx, token)
```

`auth` package tests pass. Behaviour is otherwise unchanged: the same
HTTP client value is carried; only the cancellation parent differs.

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---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Guglielmo Colombo <guglielmoc@google.com>

Author: 3 people

auth/authorization_code.go

@@ -605,7 +605,17 @@ func (h *AuthorizationCodeHandler) exchangeAuthorizationCode(ctx context.Context
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("token exchange failed: %w", err)
 	}
-	h.tokenSource = cfg.TokenSource(clientCtx, token)
+	// The token source outlives this authorization request: it is stored on the
+	// handler and used by the transport for the lifetime of the connection. The
+	// oauth2 library captures the context passed to TokenSource and reuses it for
+	// every subsequent token refresh (see golang.org/x/oauth2: tokenRefresher
+	// retains the context and passes it to each refresh round-trip). Binding it to
+	// the per-request ctx makes all later refreshes fail with "context canceled"
+	// once that request (or the connect operation that triggered authorization)
+	// completes. Use a background context that still carries the configured HTTP
+	// client so refreshes keep working for the life of the token source.
+	refreshCtx := context.WithValue(context.Background(), oauth2.HTTPClient, h.config.Client)
+	h.tokenSource = cfg.TokenSource(refreshCtx, token)
 	return nil
 }
 

auth/authorization_code_test.go

@@ -115,6 +115,101 @@ func TestAuthorize(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestAuthorize_RefreshAfterContextCancel verifies that the token source built
+// by Authorize keeps refreshing after the context passed to Authorize is
+// cancelled. The token source is stored on the handler and used by the
+// transport for the whole connection lifetime, whereas Authorize is typically
+// called from a request- or connect-scoped context. golang.org/x/oauth2
+// captures the context handed to Config.TokenSource and reuses it for every
+// refresh, so binding it to the request context made every refresh after the
+// access token expired fail with "context canceled". Regression test for that.
+func TestAuthorize_RefreshAfterContextCancel(t *testing.T) {
+	authServer := oauthtest.NewFakeAuthorizationServer(oauthtest.Config{
+		// expires_in below oauth2's 10s expiry delta, so the reuse token source
+		// treats the access token as expired immediately and must refresh.
+		AccessTokenTTL:    1,
+		IssueRefreshToken: true,
+		RegistrationConfig: &oauthtest.RegistrationConfig{
+			PreregisteredClients: map[string]oauthtest.ClientInfo{
+				"test_client_id": {
+					Secret:       "test_client_secret",
+					RedirectURIs: []string{"http://localhost:12345/callback"},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	})
+	authServer.Start(t)
+
+	resourceMux := http.NewServeMux()
+	resourceServer := httptest.NewServer(resourceMux)
+	t.Cleanup(resourceServer.Close)
+	resourceURL := resourceServer.URL + "/resource"
+	resourceMux.Handle("/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/resource", ProtectedResourceMetadataHandler(&oauthex.ProtectedResourceMetadata{
+		Resource:             resourceURL,
+		AuthorizationServers: []string{authServer.URL()},
+	}))
+
+	handler, err := NewAuthorizationCodeHandler(&AuthorizationCodeHandlerConfig{
+		RedirectURL: "http://localhost:12345/callback",
+		PreregisteredClient: &oauthex.ClientCredentials{
+			ClientID:         "test_client_id",
+			ClientSecretAuth: &oauthex.ClientSecretAuth{ClientSecret: "test_client_secret"},
+		},
+		AuthorizationCodeFetcher: func(ctx context.Context, args *AuthorizationArgs) (*AuthorizationResult, error) {
+			client := &http.Client{CheckRedirect: func(*http.Request, []*http.Request) error { return http.ErrUseLastResponse }}
+			resp, err := client.Get(args.URL)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to visit auth URL: %v", err)
+			}
+			defer resp.Body.Close()
+			location, err := resp.Location()
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to get location header: %v", err)
+			}
+			return &AuthorizationResult{
+				Code:  location.Query().Get("code"),
+				State: location.Query().Get("state"),
+				Iss:   location.Query().Get("iss"),
+			}, nil
+		},
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("NewAuthorizationCodeHandler failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, resourceURL, nil)
+	resp := &http.Response{
+		StatusCode: http.StatusUnauthorized,
+		Header:     make(http.Header),
+		Body:       http.NoBody,
+		Request:    req,
+	}
+	resp.Header.Set("WWW-Authenticate", "Bearer resource_metadata="+resourceServer.URL+"/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/resource")
+
+	// Authorize under a context that we cancel immediately afterwards, mimicking
+	// the request/connect context the transport passes and that is already done
+	// by the time a later token refresh runs.
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	if err := handler.Authorize(ctx, req, resp); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Authorize failed: %v", err)
+	}
+	cancel()
+
+	tokenSource, err := handler.TokenSource(context.Background())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to get token source: %v", err)
+	}
+	// The access token is already expired, so this forces a refresh round-trip.
+	// It must not fail with "context canceled" from the cancelled Authorize ctx.
+	token, err := tokenSource.Token()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("token refresh after Authorize context cancellation failed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if token.AccessToken != "test_access_token_refreshed" {
+		t.Errorf("expected refreshed access token %q, got %q", "test_access_token_refreshed", token.AccessToken)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestAuthorize_ScopeAccumulation(t *testing.T) {
 	authServer := oauthtest.NewFakeAuthorizationServer(oauthtest.Config{
 		RegistrationConfig: &oauthtest.RegistrationConfig{

internal/oauthtest/fake_authorization_server.go

@@ -89,6 +89,26 @@ type Config struct {
 	// TokenScopeFunc, if set, is called with the scope from the authorization
 	// request and returns the scope string to include in the token response.
 	TokenScopeFunc func(requestedScope string) string
+	// AccessTokenTTL, if non-zero, is the expires_in (in seconds) returned by the
+	// /token endpoint for both the authorization_code and refresh_token grants.
+	// When zero a default of 3600 is used. Set it small to force a client's reuse
+	// token source to treat the access token as expired and refresh it.
+	AccessTokenTTL int
+	// IssueRefreshToken, if true, includes a refresh_token in token responses and
+	// enables grant_type=refresh_token at the /token endpoint.
+	IssueRefreshToken bool
+}
+
+// testRefreshToken is the refresh token issued and accepted by the fake server
+// when Config.IssueRefreshToken is set.
+const testRefreshToken = "test_refresh_token"
+
+// accessTokenExpiresIn returns the expires_in value to use in token responses.
+func (s *FakeAuthorizationServer) accessTokenExpiresIn() int {
+	if s.config.AccessTokenTTL != 0 {
+		return s.config.AccessTokenTTL
+	}
+	return 3600
 }
 
 // FakeAuthorizationServer is a fake OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server for testing.
@@ -298,6 +318,8 @@ func (s *FakeAuthorizationServer) handleToken(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Req
 		s.handleJWTBearerGrant(w, r)
 	case "client_credentials":
 		s.handleClientCredentialsGrant(w, r)
+	case "refresh_token":
+		s.handleRefreshTokenGrant(w, r)
 	default:
 		http.Error(w, fmt.Sprintf("unsupported grant_type: %s", grantType), http.StatusBadRequest)
 	}
@@ -329,7 +351,10 @@ func (s *FakeAuthorizationServer) handleAuthorizationCodeGrant(w http.ResponseWr
 	resp := map[string]any{
 		"access_token": "test_access_token",
 		"token_type":   "Bearer",
-		"expires_in":   3600,
+		"expires_in":   s.accessTokenExpiresIn(),
+	}
+	if s.config.IssueRefreshToken {
+		resp["refresh_token"] = testRefreshToken
 	}
 	if s.config.TokenScopeFunc != nil {
 		if scope := s.config.TokenScopeFunc(codeInfo.Scope); scope != "" {
@@ -340,6 +365,27 @@ func (s *FakeAuthorizationServer) handleAuthorizationCodeGrant(w http.ResponseWr
 	json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(resp)
 }
 
+// handleRefreshTokenGrant implements grant_type=refresh_token (RFC 6749 Section
+// 6) when Config.IssueRefreshToken is set, returning a distinct access token so
+// callers can observe that a refresh occurred.
+func (s *FakeAuthorizationServer) handleRefreshTokenGrant(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	if !s.config.IssueRefreshToken {
+		http.Error(w, "refresh_token grant not supported", http.StatusBadRequest)
+		return
+	}
+	if r.Form.Get("refresh_token") != testRefreshToken {
+		http.Error(w, "invalid refresh_token", http.StatusBadRequest)
+		return
+	}
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]any{
+		"access_token":  "test_access_token_refreshed",
+		"token_type":    "Bearer",
+		"expires_in":    s.accessTokenExpiresIn(),
+		"refresh_token": testRefreshToken,
+	})
+}
+
 func (s *FakeAuthorizationServer) handleJWTBearerGrant(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	if s.config.JWTBearerConfig == nil {
 		http.Error(w, "JWT bearer grant not supported", http.StatusBadRequest)