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Cache-control is an HTTP header used to specify browser caching policies in both client requests and server responses. Policies include how a resource is cached, where it's cached and its maximum age before expiring (i.e., time to live).
Cache-control is an important way by which developers can dictate how resources will be cached when a user browses the internet. Without cache-control, the browser caching and the resulting experience for the user will be sub-optimal.
If you want to enable Cache-Control for all files, add Header set line outside the filesMatch block. As you can see, we set the Cache-Control header's max-age to 3600 seconds and to public for the listed files.
The private response directive indicates that the response can be stored only in a private cache (e.g. local caches in browsers). You should add the private directive for user-personalized content, especially for responses received after login and for sessions managed via cookies.
Cache-Control: no-cache is generally used in a request header (sent from web browser to server) to force validation of the resource in the intermediate proxies.
If the client doesn't send this request to the server, intermediate proxies will return a copy of the content if it is fresh (has not expired according to Expire or max-age fields). Cache-Control directs these proxies to revalidate the copy even if it is fresh.
A client can send a Cache-Control header in a request in order to request specific caching behavior, such as revalidation, from the origin server and any intermediate proxy servers along the request path.
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There might be a setup where cache chaining is implemented. In that case if the request comes to first cache where it is not satisfied, it might go to further chained cache.
Thus in order to get the response always from the server we include cache-control in request headers. This will insure that response is always from the server.
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