Browsers clamp Access-Control-Max-Age far below large values, to 7200 seconds in Chromium

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Setting the preflight cache to a day does not give you a day. Chromium clamps to 7200 seconds and Firefox caps at 86400, and values above the cap are silently reduced rather than rejected, so the header you sent and the behavior you get differ with no warning.

The cache is also keyed by origin, URL, method and the exact set of requested headers, and it is discarded when the network changes, so preflight traffic never reaches zero. If preflights are measurably hurting a chatty API, the effective moves are removing custom headers from hot paths so requests become simple, and keeping URLs stable so cache entries are reused, rather than raising a number the browser will ignore.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Access-Control-Max-Age

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