# HTML5 Forms and Request/Response
At the end of this topic, you should be able to:
- List 15 or more common HTML5 elements and describe their purpose and usage
- Distinguish between GET and POST requests to a web server
- Describe how a browser processes an html document it has received
- Describe the Request/Response communication that occurs between a browser and a web server
- List at least four distinct pieces of information a browser sends in a typical request for an URL
- Define the acronyms URL and URI
- Define the acronyms HTTP and HTTPS
- List the HTML5 form elements and describe their purpose and usage
- Describe the purpose of the
methodandactionattributes on the<form>element - Describe what is meant by the assertion that http is a stateless protocol