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Developer details 49-minute SSE hang debug in mcpier AI tool

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The developer of mcpier, a self-hosted control plane for Model Context Protocol servers, detailed a recent debugging session involving a silent Server-Sent Events (SSE) hang. The issue, which persisted for 49 minutes after an initial fix, was ultimately traced to an incorrect regex assuming the wrong line ending. The mcpier tool aims to simplify managing multiple AI model keys by encrypting them and providing a single URL, supporting models like OpenAI, Gemini, and GPT-5.4. AI

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Developer details 49-minute SSE hang debug in mcpier AI tool

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Pranab Sarkar ·

    49 Minutes Chasing a Silent SSE Hang in mcpier, and the CRLF Regex Behind It

    <p>At 21:30:27 UTC on 2026-04-17 I committed what I thought was the fix, and v0.1.7 was on npm thirty seconds later. The SSE stream still didn't move. No error, no stack trace, just a client waiting on frames that never arrived. Finding the actual problem took another 49 minutes …

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