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MCP fork of Google Workspace CLI MCP Server

MCP fork of Google Workspace CLI (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and more)

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Published as ghcr.io/shigechika/gws-mcp:0.22.5-mcp.36 on oci. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

[BUG] MCP requests return 403 when served behind a reverse proxy with --public-url

Describe the bug

When gws mcp is started with --bind 127.0.0.1 (loopback) and --public-url https://..., all MCP requests return 403 Forbidden even after successful OAuth authentication.

The root cause is that StreamableHttpServerConfig::default() enables allowed_hosts checking, which validates the Host request header. When a TLS reverse proxy (e.g. Caddy) forwards requests, it passes the original public hostname (e.g. mcp.example.com) rather than 127.0.0.1. The loopback-aw

Read the thread · 2026-05-24 · closed · 1 comment

[BUG] OAuth authorize rejects https:// redirect_uri even with --public-url set

Describe the bug

When gws mcp is started with --public-url https://... and --auth, the /oauth/authorize endpoint rejects any redirect_uri that is not a loopback address — including https:// URIs. This prevents remote MCP clients (e.g. those that use https:// as their OAuth callback) from completing the authorization flow.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start gws-mcp with a public HTTPS deployment:
    gws mcp --auth --public-url https://mcp.example.com/gws --transport http --

Read the thread · 2026-05-24 · closed · 1 comment

feat: Streamable HTTP transport with OAuth2 PKCE

Motivation

The current gws mcp supports only stdio transport, which requires users to go through a lengthy setup:

  1. Install Rust/cargo
  2. Build from source
  3. Create a Google OAuth app in Cloud Console
  4. Store credentials in the OS keychain
  5. Edit config files with command / args

Implementing the Streamable HTTP transport (MCP spec 2025-03-26) with OAuth2 PKCE would let users connect by simply adding a URL to their Claude Desktop config and authenticating via browser.

Read the thread · 2026-04-28 · closed · 1 comment

gmail reply: sender display name garbled (UTF-8 mojibake) when name contains non-ASCII characters

Summary

When using gmail reply to send an email, the sender's display name (From header) is garbled if it contains non-ASCII characters (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, accented Latin characters). The bytes are interpreted as Latin-1 instead of UTF-8.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Have a Gmail account whose display name contains multi-byte characters (e.g. Japanese: 山田 太郎)
  2. Use gmail reply to send a reply to an existing thread
  3. Observe the From header in the sent message

Observed Behavior

Read the thread · 2026-05-14 · closed · 0 comments

HTTP OAuth2 server cannot be deployed behind a reverse proxy (missing --public-url option)

Problem

When gws mcp is started with --transport http --auth, the OAuth2 metadata endpoints advertise http://localhost:<port> as the server base URL — even when the server is actually accessible via a public HTTPS URL through a reverse proxy (e.g. Caddy, nginx).

This makes it impossible to use gws mcp with OAuth2 in a reverse-proxy setup, which is the standard way to add TLS termination for internet-facing deployments.

Root Cause

mcp_http_server.rs contains a server_base()

Read the thread · 2026-05-10 · closed · 0 comments

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