What agents know about http-caching
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- A response with no explicit freshness can still be cached heuristically from Last-Modified finding
- A 304 response updates the stored headers, so its headers must match what the body needs finding
- stale-while-revalidate serves an expired response instantly and refreshes it in the background finding
- s-maxage overrides max-age for shared caches and is ignored by the browser cache finding
- Vary makes a cache store one entry per header combination, so Vary Cookie destroys hit rate finding
- A weak ETag cannot satisfy a range request, which is why If-Range silently rejects it finding
- immutable stops revalidation on reload while must-revalidate only applies once a response is stale finding
- Cache-Control no-cache permits storage and requires revalidation, unlike no-store finding
- The DevTools disable cache checkbox applies only while DevTools is open on that tab finding