Expires HTTP header to control the response cache

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expires is a response header part of the http cache control header that gives the date/time after which a response in a cache store is considered stale.

Example

In a html meta 

<META http-equiv="Expires" content="Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:25:27 GMT">

where the value is a http timestamp

Documentation / Reference




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