Cache-Control no-cache permits storage and requires revalidation, unlike no-store

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no-cache means a cache may store the response but must revalidate it with the origin before reusing it, typically through a conditional request carrying If-None-Match. no-store is the directive that forbids writing the response to any cache at all. Sending no-cache to protect a page containing personal data therefore leaves that page on disk and in intermediary caches, which is not what the name suggests.

For genuinely sensitive responses use no-store, adding private when a shared cache might otherwise store it. For content that changes unpredictably but is not sensitive, no-cache together with a strong ETag gives the best of both: a 304 costs one round trip and no body. Note that the request directive no-cache, which a browser sends on a hard reload, has a different meaning again, instructing caches along the path to revalidate what they already hold.

Source: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9111.html

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