diff --git a/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py b/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py
index 12e515e19a8..f4883b57fbc 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import threading
 import time
 from collections.abc import AsyncIterable, Callable, Iterable, Mapping
 from http.cookiejar import CookieJar, DefaultCookiePolicy
+from io import BytesIO
 from types import MappingProxyType
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, ClassVar, Final, NoReturn, Optional, TypeAlias, TypedDict, TypeVar
 
@@ -505,6 +506,10 @@ async def _raise_masked_async_error(e: httpx.HTTPStatusError, stream: bool) -> N
     raise MaskedHTTPStatusError(e, message=_text, text=_text) from None
 
 
+class HTTPResponseLimitError(ValueError):
+    pass
+
+
 class MaskedHTTPStatusError(httpx.HTTPStatusError):
     def __init__(self, original_error, message: str | None = None, text: str | None = None):
         # Create a new error with the masked URL
@@ -654,6 +659,7 @@ class AsyncHTTPHandler:
         headers: dict | None = None,
         follow_redirects: bool | None = None,
         timeout: float | httpx.Timeout | None = None,
+        max_response_bytes: int | None = None,
     ):
         # Set follow_redirects to UseClientDefault if None
         _follow_redirects: Final = follow_redirects if follow_redirects is not None else USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT
@@ -661,6 +667,16 @@ class AsyncHTTPHandler:
         params = params or {}
         params.update(HTTPHandler.extract_query_params(url))
 
+        if max_response_bytes is not None:
+            return await self._get_with_response_limit(
+                url,
+                params=httpx.QueryParams(params),
+                headers=httpx.Headers(headers),
+                max_bytes=max_response_bytes,
+                follow_redirects=self.client.follow_redirects if follow_redirects is None else follow_redirects,
+                timeout=self.client.timeout if timeout is None else httpx.Timeout(timeout),
+            )
+
         response: Final = await self.client.get(
             url,
             params=params,
@@ -670,6 +686,57 @@ class AsyncHTTPHandler:
         )
         return response
 
+    async def _get_with_response_limit(
+        self,
+        url: str,
+        *,
+        params: httpx.QueryParams,
+        headers: httpx.Headers,
+        timeout: httpx.Timeout,
+        max_bytes: int,
+        follow_redirects: bool,
+    ) -> httpx.Response:
+        request: Final = self.client.build_request(
+            "GET",
+            url,
+            headers=MappingProxyType({**headers, "accept-encoding": "identity"}),
+            params=params,
+            timeout=timeout,
+        )
+        response: Final = await self.client.send(request, stream=True, follow_redirects=False)
+        return await self._read_with_response_limit(response, max_bytes=max_bytes, follow_redirects=follow_redirects)
+
+    async def _read_with_response_limit(
+        self, response: httpx.Response, *, max_bytes: int, follow_redirects: bool, redirects_remaining: int = 10
+    ) -> httpx.Response:
+        try:
+            if response.next_request is not None and follow_redirects:
+                if redirects_remaining == 0:
+                    raise ValueError("Too many redirects")
+                await response.aclose()
+                following: Final = await self.client.send(
+                    response.next_request, auth=None, stream=True, follow_redirects=False
+                )
+                return await self._read_with_response_limit(
+                    following, max_bytes=max_bytes, follow_redirects=True, redirects_remaining=redirects_remaining - 1
+                )
+            if response.is_redirect or response.is_error:
+                return httpx.Response(response.status_code, headers=response.headers, request=response.request)
+            if response.headers.get("content-encoding", "identity").lower() != "identity":
+                raise HTTPResponseLimitError("Response size limits require an uncompressed response")
+            if int(response.headers.get("content-length", "0")) > max_bytes:
+                raise HTTPResponseLimitError("Response exceeds the configured size limit")
+            with BytesIO() as body:
+                async for chunk in response.aiter_bytes(chunk_size=65536):
+                    if body.tell() + len(chunk) > max_bytes:
+                        raise HTTPResponseLimitError("Response exceeds the configured size limit")
+                    body.write(chunk)
+                return httpx.Response(
+                    response.status_code, headers=response.headers, content=body.getvalue(), request=response.request
+                )
+        finally:
+            await response.aclose()
+
     @track_llm_api_timing()
     async def post(
         self,
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/mcp_server_manager.py b/litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/mcp_server_manager.py
index af25b0e919a..17d3098bf4c 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/mcp_server_manager.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/mcp_server_manager.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ from collections.abc import (
 )
 from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
 from dataclasses import dataclass, replace
+from functools import lru_cache
 from types import MappingProxyType
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Final, Literal, TypeAlias, TypedDict, cast
 from urllib.parse import ParseResult, urlparse
@@ -883,6 +884,53 @@ def _sanitized_error_text(exc: Exception) -> str:
     return re.sub(r"https?://\S+", "<url>", str(exc))[:200]
 
 
+async def _openapi_spec_health(
+    spec_path: str, *, timeout: float
+) -> tuple[Literal["healthy", "unhealthy", "unknown"], str | None]:
+    """Check specification availability, not upstream operations or user credentials."""
+    from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import HTTPResponseLimitError
+    from litellm.proxy._experimental.mcp_server.openapi_to_mcp_generator import load_openapi_spec_async
+
+    if not spec_path.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
+        return "unknown", "OpenAPI servers have no protocol-level health probe"
+    try:
+        await asyncio.wait_for(load_openapi_spec_async(spec_path, max_bytes=10 * 1024 * 1024), timeout=timeout)
+    except asyncio.TimeoutError:
+        return "unhealthy", f"OpenAPI specification check timed out after {timeout} seconds"
+    except HTTPStatusError as exc:
+        return "unhealthy", f"OpenAPI specification request failed (HTTP {exc.response.status_code})"
+    except HTTPResponseLimitError as exc:
+        return "unknown", f"OpenAPI specification probe refused: {exc}"
+    except (httpx.RequestError, ValueError, OSError) as exc:
+        return "unhealthy", f"OpenAPI specification could not be loaded ({type(exc).__name__})"
+    return "healthy", None
+
+
+class _OpenAPIHealthProbe:
+    def __init__(self, spec_path: str, clock: Callable[[], float] = time.monotonic) -> None:
+        self.spec_path = spec_path
+        self.clock = clock
+        self.lock = asyncio.Lock()
+        self.checked_at = float("-inf")
+        self.result: tuple[Literal["healthy", "unhealthy", "unknown"], str | None, datetime.datetime] | None = None
+
+    async def check(self) -> tuple[Literal["healthy", "unhealthy", "unknown"], str | None, datetime.datetime]:
+        async with self.lock:
+            if self.result is not None and self.clock() - self.checked_at < 30.0:
+                return self.result
+            try:
+                status, error = await _openapi_spec_health(self.spec_path, timeout=MCP_HEALTH_CHECK_TIMEOUT)
+            except asyncio.CancelledError:
+                return (
+                    "unknown",
+                    "OpenAPI specification check was cancelled",
+                    datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc),
+                )
+            self.result = (status, error, datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc))
+            self.checked_at = self.clock()
+            return self.result
+
+
 def _discovery_failure_leaves_needs_unresolved(
     *,
     needs_authorization_url: bool,
@@ -1749,6 +1797,7 @@ class MCPServerManager:
             token_exchanger=build_token_exchanger(),
         )
         self.registry: dict[str, MCPServer] = {}
+        self._openapi_health_probes: Callable[[str], _OpenAPIHealthProbe] = lru_cache(maxsize=128)(_OpenAPIHealthProbe)
         self.config_mcp_servers: dict[str, MCPServer] = {}
         """
         eg.
@@ -6679,6 +6728,18 @@ class MCPServerManager:
                 last_health_check=datetime.now(),
             )
 
+        if server.spec_path:
+            spec_status, spec_error, spec_checked_at = await self._openapi_health_probes(server.spec_path).check()
+            return self._build_mcp_server_table(server).model_copy(
+                update=MappingProxyType(
+                    {
+                        "status": spec_status,
+                        "health_check_error": spec_error,
+                        "last_health_check": spec_checked_at,
+                    }
+                )
+            )
+
         status: Literal["healthy", "unhealthy", "unknown"] = "unknown"
         health_check_error = None
 
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/openapi_to_mcp_generator.py b/litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/openapi_to_mcp_generator.py
index 16f58ef5b76..d115eb8b3c1 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/openapi_to_mcp_generator.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/openapi_to_mcp_generator.py
@@ -163,10 +163,14 @@ def load_openapi_spec(filepath: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
     return asyncio.run(load_openapi_spec_async(filepath))
 
 
-async def load_openapi_spec_async(filepath: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+async def load_openapi_spec_async(filepath: str, *, max_bytes: int | None = None) -> dict[str, Any]:
     if filepath.startswith("http://") or filepath.startswith("https://"):
         client: Final = get_async_httpx_client(llm_provider=httpxSpecialProvider.MCP)
-        r: Final[httpx.Response] = await async_safe_get(client, filepath)
+        r: Final[httpx.Response] = (
+            await async_safe_get(client, filepath)
+            if max_bytes is None
+            else await async_safe_get(client, filepath, max_response_bytes=max_bytes)
+        )
         r.raise_for_status()
         return r.json()
 
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py b/tests/test_litellm/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py
index 3d4ba264c1c..f8868cfaf83 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/llms/custom_httpx/test_http_handler.py
@@ -1612,3 +1612,66 @@ async def test_a_retried_put_stays_a_put_and_still_refuses_redirects():
         assert attempts == [("PUT", "/first"), ("PUT", "/first")]
     finally:
         await handler.client.aclose()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("target", ["https://example.com/final.json?next=1", "https://other.example/final.json?next=1"])
+async def test_bounded_get_preserves_sdk_redirect_auth_and_query_handling(respx_mock, monkeypatch, target):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    respx_mock.get("https://example.com/spec.json?original=1").respond(302, headers={"location": target})
+    destination = respx_mock.get(target).respond(200, json={"paths": {}})
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        response = await handler.get(
+            "https://example.com/spec.json?original=1", max_response_bytes=100, follow_redirects=True,
+            headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sentinel", "Accept-Encoding": "gzip"}, timeout=2.0,
+        )
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+    assert response.json() == {"paths": {}}
+    request = destination.calls[0].request
+    assert request.headers.get("authorization") == (None if "other.example" in target else "Bearer sentinel")
+    assert request.headers["accept-encoding"] == "identity"
+    assert str(request.url) == target
+    assert request.extensions["timeout"]["read"] == 2.0
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_stops_redirect_loops(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    route = respx_mock.get("https://example.com/spec.json").respond(302, headers={"location": "/spec.json"})
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="Too many redirects"):
+            await handler.get("https://example.com/spec.json", max_response_bytes=100, follow_redirects=True)
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+    assert route.call_count == 11
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bounded_get_closes_stream_on_cancellation(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    started = asyncio.Event()
+    closed = asyncio.Event()
+
+    class SlowStream(httpx.AsyncByteStream):
+        async def __aiter__(self):
+            yield b"x"
+            started.set()
+            await asyncio.Event().wait()
+
+        async def aclose(self):
+            closed.set()
+
+    respx_mock.get("https://example.com/slow.json").respond(200, stream=SlowStream())
+    handler = AsyncHTTPHandler()
+    try:
+        task = asyncio.create_task(handler.get("https://example.com/slow.json", max_response_bytes=100))
+        await asyncio.wait_for(started.wait(), timeout=1)
+        task.cancel()
+        with pytest.raises(asyncio.CancelledError):
+            await task
+    finally:
+        await handler.close()
+    assert closed.is_set()
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/test_mcp_server_manager.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/test_mcp_server_manager.py
index adf985e9a21..a6e43686e2c 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/test_mcp_server_manager.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/test_mcp_server_manager.py
@@ -4473,6 +4473,116 @@ class TestMCPServerManager:
         assert len(result) == 1
         assert result[0].name == "github_tool_1"
 
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("auth_type", [MCPAuth.none, MCPAuth.bearer_token, MCPAuth.api_key, MCPAuth.oauth2])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("is_byok", [False, True])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("scheme", ["http", "https"])
+    async def test_openapi_health_loads_spec_without_mcp_handshake(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch, auth_type, is_byok, scheme):
+        monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+        manager = MCPServerManager()
+        server = MCPServer(
+            server_id="openapi-health",
+            name="openapi-health",
+            transport=MCPTransport.http,
+            url="https://rest.example.com",
+            spec_path=f"{scheme}://93.184.216.34/openapi.json",
+            auth_type=auth_type,
+            is_byok=is_byok,
+            authentication_token=None if is_byok else "shared-secret",
+            static_headers={"Authorization": "Bearer static-secret"},
+        )
+        manager.registry = {server.server_id: server}
+        route = respx_mock.get(server.spec_path).respond(200, json={"openapi": "3.0.0", "paths": {}})
+        result = await manager.health_check_server(server.server_id, mcp_auth_header="caller-secret")
+        assert result.status == "healthy"
+        assert result.health_check_error is None
+        assert result.last_health_check is not None
+        assert result.spec_path == server.spec_path
+        assert route.call_count == 1
+        assert "authorization" not in route.calls[0].request.headers
+        assert "x-api-key" not in route.calls[0].request.headers
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("auth_type", [MCPAuth.none, MCPAuth.bearer_token])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("spec_path", ["/config/openapi.json", "relative/openapi.json"])
+    async def test_openapi_local_spec_health_is_unknown(self, respx_mock, auth_type, spec_path):
+        manager = MCPServerManager()
+        server = MCPServer(
+            server_id="local-openapi-health",
+            name="local-openapi-health",
+            transport=MCPTransport.http,
+            url="https://rest.example.com",
+            spec_path=spec_path,
+            auth_type=auth_type,
+            is_byok=True,
+        )
+        manager.registry = {server.server_id: server}
+        result = await manager.health_check_server(server.server_id)
+        assert result.status == "unknown"
+        assert result.health_check_error == "OpenAPI servers have no protocol-level health probe"
+        assert result.last_health_check is not None
+        assert not respx_mock.calls
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        ("failure", "expected_status", "expected_error"),
+        [
+            (httpx.Response(401, text="secret response content"), "unhealthy", "OpenAPI specification request failed (HTTP 401)"),
+            (httpx.Response(404), "unhealthy", "OpenAPI specification request failed (HTTP 404)"),
+            (httpx.Response(500), "unhealthy", "OpenAPI specification request failed (HTTP 500)"),
+            (httpx.ConnectError("secret network details"), "unhealthy", "OpenAPI specification could not be loaded (ConnectError)"),
+            (httpx.Response(200, text="secret invalid JSON body"), "unhealthy", "OpenAPI specification could not be loaded (JSONDecodeError)"),
+        ],
+    )
+    async def test_openapi_health_reports_safe_failures(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch, failure, expected_status, expected_error):
+        monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+        manager = MCPServerManager()
+        server = MCPServer(
+            server_id="failed-openapi-health",
+            name="failed-openapi-health",
+            transport=MCPTransport.http,
+            url="https://rest.example.com",
+            spec_path="https://93.184.216.34/key-secret?token=query-secret",
+            auth_type=MCPAuth.bearer_token,
+            is_byok=True,
+        )
+        manager.registry = {server.server_id: server}
+        route = respx_mock.get(server.spec_path).mock(side_effect=[failure])
+        result = await manager.health_check_server(server.server_id)
+        assert result.status == expected_status
+        assert result.health_check_error == expected_error
+        assert result.last_health_check is not None
+        assert route.call_count == 1
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("cancel", [False, True])
+    async def test_openapi_health_timeout_and_cancellation_cleanup(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch, cancel):
+        from litellm.proxy._experimental.mcp_server.mcp_server_manager import _openapi_spec_health
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+        started = asyncio.Event()
+        cancelled = asyncio.Event()
+
+        async def slow_load(request):
+            started.set()
+            try:
+                await asyncio.Event().wait()
+            finally:
+                cancelled.set()
+
+        respx_mock.get("https://93.184.216.34/slow.json").mock(side_effect=slow_load)
+        task = asyncio.create_task(_openapi_spec_health("https://93.184.216.34/slow.json", timeout=0.1))
+        await asyncio.wait_for(started.wait(), timeout=1)
+        if cancel:
+            task.cancel()
+            with pytest.raises(asyncio.CancelledError):
+                await task
+        else:
+            status, error = await task
+            assert status == "unhealthy"
+            assert error == "OpenAPI specification check timed out after 0.1 seconds"
+        assert cancelled.is_set()
+
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     async def test_health_check_server_healthy(self):
         """Test health check for a healthy server"""
@@ -12676,3 +12786,118 @@ async def test_debug_reports_legacy_signing_and_non_http_transport(transport: Li
             assert "Credential=AKIDEXAMPLE/" in request.headers["Authorization"]
     finally:
         request_ctx.reset(token)
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_openapi_health_coalesces_concurrent_checks_and_reuses_results(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    manager = MCPServerManager()
+    server = MCPServer(
+        server_id="coalesced",
+        name="coalesced",
+        transport=MCPTransport.http,
+        spec_path="https://93.184.216.34/coalesced.json",
+        auth_type=MCPAuth.none,
+    )
+    manager.registry = {server.server_id: server}
+    started = asyncio.Event()
+    release = asyncio.Event()
+
+    async def serve(request):
+        started.set()
+        await release.wait()
+        return httpx.Response(200, json={"paths": {}})
+
+    route = respx_mock.get(server.spec_path).mock(side_effect=serve)
+    tasks = [asyncio.create_task(manager.health_check_server(server.server_id)) for _ in range(4)]
+    await asyncio.wait_for(started.wait(), timeout=1)
+    release.set()
+    results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+    cached = await manager.health_check_server(server.server_id)
+    assert [result.status for result in results] == ["healthy"] * 4
+    assert cached.status == "healthy"
+    assert {result.last_health_check for result in [*results, cached]} == {results[0].last_health_check}
+    assert route.call_count == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_openapi_health_cache_expires_at_thirty_seconds(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    from litellm.proxy._experimental.mcp_server.mcp_server_manager import _OpenAPIHealthProbe
+
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    clock = iter([0.0, 29.0, 30.0, 30.0])
+    probe = _OpenAPIHealthProbe("https://93.184.216.34/expiry.json", clock=clock.__next__)
+    route = respx_mock.get(probe.spec_path).mock(
+        side_effect=[
+            httpx.Response(200, json={"paths": {}}),
+            httpx.Response(503),
+        ]
+    )
+    first = await probe.check()
+    assert first[0] == "healthy"
+    assert await probe.check() == first
+    refreshed = await probe.check()
+    assert refreshed[0] == "unhealthy"
+    assert refreshed[1] == "OpenAPI specification request failed (HTTP 503)"
+    assert refreshed[2] >= first[2]
+    assert route.call_count == 2
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_openapi_health_reports_size_limit_as_unknown_and_caches_failure(respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    manager = MCPServerManager()
+    server = MCPServer(
+        server_id="oversized",
+        name="oversized",
+        transport=MCPTransport.http,
+        spec_path="https://93.184.216.34/large.json",
+        auth_type=MCPAuth.none,
+    )
+    manager.registry = {server.server_id: server}
+    route = respx_mock.get(server.spec_path).respond(200, headers={"content-length": str(12 * 1024 * 1024)})
+    result = await manager.health_check_server(server.server_id)
+    cached = await manager.health_check_server(server.server_id)
+    assert result.status == "unknown"
+    assert result.health_check_error == "OpenAPI specification probe refused: Response exceeds the configured size limit"
+    assert cached.health_check_error == result.health_check_error
+    assert cached.last_health_check == result.last_health_check
+    assert route.call_count == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("already_waiting", [False, True])
+async def test_openapi_health_cancellation_does_not_poison_cache(respx_mock, monkeypatch, already_waiting):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+    manager = MCPServerManager()
+    server = MCPServer(
+        server_id="cancelled-cache", name="cancelled-cache", transport=MCPTransport.http,
+        spec_path="https://93.184.216.34/cancelled-cache.json", auth_type=MCPAuth.none,
+    )
+    manager.registry = {server.server_id: server}
+    started = asyncio.Event()
+    attempts = []
+
+    async def serve(request):
+        attempts.append(request.url)
+        if not started.is_set():
+            started.set()
+            await asyncio.Event().wait()
+        return httpx.Response(200, json={"paths": {}})
+
+    route = respx_mock.get(server.spec_path).mock(side_effect=serve)
+    leader = asyncio.create_task(manager.health_check_server(server.server_id))
+    await asyncio.wait_for(started.wait(), timeout=1)
+    follower = asyncio.create_task(manager.health_check_server(server.server_id)) if already_waiting else None
+    await asyncio.sleep(0)
+    leader.cancel()
+    cancelled = await leader
+    assert cancelled.status == "unknown"
+    assert cancelled.health_check_error == "OpenAPI specification check was cancelled"
+    recovered = await follower if follower is not None else await manager.health_check_server(server.server_id)
+    assert recovered.status == "healthy"
+    assert recovered.health_check_error is None
+    cached = await manager.health_check_server(server.server_id)
+    assert cached.last_health_check == recovered.last_health_check
+    assert cached.status == "healthy"
+    assert len(attempts) == 2
+    assert route.call_count == 1
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/test_openapi_to_mcp_generator.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/test_openapi_to_mcp_generator.py
index e59616e53c1..5fa202224e3 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/test_openapi_to_mcp_generator.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/_experimental/mcp_server/test_openapi_to_mcp_generator.py
@@ -1378,3 +1378,83 @@ class TestUpstreamStatusIsClassified:
         assert exc.value.status_code == status_code
         assert secret_body not in str(exc.value)
         assert str(exc.value) == f"upstream returned HTTP {status_code}"
+
+class TestBoundedOpenAPISpecLoading:
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("max_bytes", [12, 13])
+    async def test_exact_size_and_smaller_specs_load(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch, max_bytes):
+        from litellm.proxy._experimental.mcp_server.openapi_to_mcp_generator import load_openapi_spec_async
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+        route = respx_mock.get("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json").respond(200, content=b'{"paths":{}}')
+        assert await load_openapi_spec_async("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json", max_bytes=max_bytes) == {"paths": {}}
+        assert route.calls[0].request.headers["accept-encoding"] == "identity"
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("headers", [{"content-length": "1000000"}, {"content-encoding": "gzip"}])
+    async def test_unsafe_response_headers_reject_before_reading(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch, headers):
+        import httpx
+        from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import HTTPResponseLimitError
+        from litellm.proxy._experimental.mcp_server.openapi_to_mcp_generator import (
+            load_openapi_spec_async,
+        )
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+        closed = []
+
+        class UnreadableStream(httpx.AsyncByteStream):
+            async def __aiter__(self):
+                pytest.fail("Oversized or compressed response must not be consumed")
+                yield b""
+
+            async def aclose(self):
+                closed.append(True)
+
+        respx_mock.get("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json").respond(200, headers=headers, stream=UnreadableStream())
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError):
+            await load_openapi_spec_async("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json", max_bytes=12)
+        assert closed == [True]
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_chunked_response_is_bounded_and_closed(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch):
+        import httpx
+        from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import HTTPResponseLimitError
+        from litellm.proxy._experimental.mcp_server.openapi_to_mcp_generator import (
+            load_openapi_spec_async,
+        )
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+        consumed = []
+        closed = []
+
+        class ChunkedStream(httpx.AsyncByteStream):
+            async def __aiter__(self):
+                for index in range(10):
+                    consumed.append(index)
+                    yield b"x" * 65536
+
+            async def aclose(self):
+                closed.append(True)
+
+        respx_mock.get("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json").respond(200, stream=ChunkedStream())
+        with pytest.raises(HTTPResponseLimitError, match="size limit"):
+            await load_openapi_spec_async("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json", max_bytes=65536)
+        assert consumed == [0, 1]
+        assert closed == [True]
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("target", ["https://93.184.216.35/final.json", "http://127.0.0.1/private.json"])
+    async def test_bounded_spec_redirects_preserve_ssrf_protection(self, respx_mock, monkeypatch, target):
+        from litellm.litellm_core_utils.url_utils import SSRFError
+        from litellm.proxy._experimental.mcp_server.openapi_to_mcp_generator import load_openapi_spec_async
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_AIOHTTP_TRANSPORT", "True")
+        respx_mock.get("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json").respond(302, headers={"location": target})
+        destination = respx_mock.get(target).respond(200, json={"paths": {}})
+        if "127.0.0.1" in target:
+            with pytest.raises(SSRFError):
+                await load_openapi_spec_async("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json", max_bytes=100)
+            assert not destination.called
+        else:
+            assert await load_openapi_spec_async("https://93.184.216.34/spec.json", max_bytes=100) == {"paths": {}}
+            assert destination.call_count == 1