Reputation: 41674
Does Cache-Control s-maxage header override Expires header for browser cache?
I want to set a far future Expires headers to reduce requests made from individual browsers.
I'd also like to set Cache-Control: s-maxage=600 so that proxy caches (and CDNs) revalidate with the origin every 10 minutes for fresh content.
Will browsers honour the Expires header despite the existence of a Cache-Control header (which supposedly supersedes it) with a s-maxage directive?
Upvotes: 4
Views: 2711
Answers (2)
Reputation: 13926
If a response includes both an Expires and a Cache-Control max-age directive, the max-age overrides the Expires header, even if the Expires header is more restrictive. This rule allows an origin server to provide, for a given response, a longer expiration time to an HTTP/1.1 cache than to an HTTP/1.0 cache.
Source: http://condor.depaul.edu/dmumaugh/readings/handouts/SE435/HTTP/node24.html
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 2490
If both are included then both will be checked, neither has precedence. Max-age does not supersede expires, it's additional.
Upvotes: -2
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