HTTP Intermediate Cache Store / Proxy Cache

About

An Intermediate Cache or Proxy cache is cache store that sits between the client and the server in the cache chain.

Control

Proxy caches resource by reading only the following Cache-Control headers:

  • max-age,
  • s-maxage,
  • and private

The others headers will not influence proxy caching.




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