# Streamable HTTP

URL: https://xodia.ai/glossary/streamable-http
Description: Streamable HTTP explained: what it is, why it matters and how Xodia uses it, with links to the Xodia features and guides that cover it.
Last updated: 2026-11-08

Streamable HTTP is the MCP transport for remote servers: the client sends each message as an HTTP POST to one endpoint, and the server can answer with a single response or a stream of events.

Updated November 8, 2026

## What it is

MCP defines how messages travel between a client and a server, called the transport. A local server can talk over standard input and output, but a server on the internet needs HTTP. Streamable HTTP uses one URL for everything: requests go up as POST bodies, and the server answers with JSON or streams several messages back when a call takes a while.

Because it is plain HTTPS, it works through normal networks and proxies, and the server can sit behind sign-in like any web API.

## In Xodia

Xodia's MCP server is a remote server reached over Streamable HTTP at one address on the app's domain. In an app that asks for the transport type, choose Streamable HTTP and set sign-in to OAuth.

You never run anything on your computer to use it: the server is part of the Xodia app, and your AI app connects to it over the internet.

## Read more

- [The Xodia MCP server reference](https://xodia.ai/ai/mcp)
- [Connect Cursor](https://xodia.ai/ai/cursor)

## Related terms

- [MCP (Model Context Protocol) MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that lets an AI app connect to outside tools and data through one common interface.](https://xodia.ai/glossary/mcp)
- [MCP OAuth MCP OAuth is how a remote MCP server signs in the person using an AI app: the app opens the server's sign-in page, you approve access, and the app gets a token it sends with every call.](https://xodia.ai/glossary/mcp-oauth)
- [Preview deployment A preview deployment is a temporary, private copy of a website built from a branch or pull request, so changes can be checked at a real address before they go live.](https://xodia.ai/glossary/preview-deployment)

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