diff --git a/plugins/communication_protocols/http/pyproject.toml b/plugins/communication_protocols/http/pyproject.toml
index 10bb447..ef2cdda 100644
--- a/plugins/communication_protocols/http/pyproject.toml
+++ b/plugins/communication_protocols/http/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "utcp-http"
-version = "1.1.8"
+version = "1.1.9"
 authors = [
   { name = "UTCP Contributors" },
 ]
diff --git a/plugins/communication_protocols/http/src/utcp_http/openapi_converter.py b/plugins/communication_protocols/http/src/utcp_http/openapi_converter.py
index 0054b29..dc930f0 100644
--- a/plugins/communication_protocols/http/src/utcp_http/openapi_converter.py
+++ b/plugins/communication_protocols/http/src/utcp_http/openapi_converter.py
@@ -29,9 +29,15 @@
 from utcp_http.http_call_template import HttpCallTemplate
 from utcp_http._security import ensure_secure_url, is_loopback_url
 
-# HTTP methods that HttpCallTemplate.http_method accepts. Kept as the single
-# source of truth for both the operation loop filter and per-operation
-# validation so the two can never drift apart.
+# All HTTP methods that OpenAPI defines as operation fields on a Path Item
+# Object. The conversion loop uses this to tell operations apart from the other
+# path-item keys (parameters, summary, $ref, servers, ...), so that genuinely
+# unsupported operations still reach _create_tool and get a warning rather than
+# being silently dropped by the loop.
+OPENAPI_OPERATION_METHODS: Tuple[str, ...] = ("get", "put", "post", "delete", "options", "head", "patch", "trace")
+
+# The subset of HTTP methods that HttpCallTemplate.http_method accepts.
+# _create_tool validates against this and skips anything else with a warning.
 SUPPORTED_HTTP_METHODS: Tuple[str, ...] = ("GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "PATCH")
 
 class OpenApiConverter:
@@ -190,7 +196,7 @@ def convert(self) -> UtcpManual:
 
         for path, path_item in self.spec.get("paths", {}).items():
             for method, operation in path_item.items():
-                if method.upper() in SUPPORTED_HTTP_METHODS:
+                if method.lower() in OPENAPI_OPERATION_METHODS:
                     tool = self._create_tool(path, method, operation, base_url)
                     if tool:
                         tools.append(tool)
diff --git a/plugins/communication_protocols/http/tests/test_openapi_converter.py b/plugins/communication_protocols/http/tests/test_openapi_converter.py
index 1cb3ac6..9cf7709 100644
--- a/plugins/communication_protocols/http/tests/test_openapi_converter.py
+++ b/plugins/communication_protocols/http/tests/test_openapi_converter.py
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ def test_openapi_converter_parameter_examples():
     assert example_value["email"] == "jane@example.com"
 
 
-def test_openapi_converter_skips_unsupported_methods():
+def test_openapi_converter_skips_unsupported_methods(capsys):
     """Operations with HTTP methods HttpCallTemplate cannot represent are skipped, not crashed on."""
     openapi_spec = {
         "openapi": "3.0.0",
@@ -254,6 +254,13 @@ def test_openapi_converter_skips_unsupported_methods():
     tool_names = {tool.name for tool in manual.tools}
     assert tool_names == {"listThings"}
 
+    # Unsupported operations must reach _create_tool and emit a skip warning,
+    # not be silently dropped by the loop filter.
+    stderr = capsys.readouterr().err
+    assert "optionsThings" in stderr
+    assert "headThings" in stderr
+    assert "traceThings" in stderr
+
 
 def test_openapi_converter_schema_level_examples_normalized():
     """Examples declared at the schema level (not the media type) are normalized into 'examples'."""