Method Contexts

Method context pages explain how each HTTP method carries the actual elicitation techniques and which RFC-defined differentials are reachable through that method. The method is the transport frame; the existence signal comes from the attached technique.

This section covers two method contexts:

1. GET — the primary and broadest carrier method. Supports validator retrieval, range evaluation, precondition evaluation, and negotiation. The only RFC-defined method context for range handling.
2. HEAD — a narrower mirror of GET that suppresses response content. Valid for conditional retrieval and precondition evaluation, but not a core range carrier.

Key principle: Neither method is itself the elicitation technique. Plain GET or HEAD without a Stage 2 manipulator is baseline transport context, not the oracle result.