Cache Control Headers Explained

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes answer a question about caching, cache control headers, an explanation of the fields for caching.

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Show Notes

• Time to live calculator

• Reminx Conf

• Opera

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• 00:24 Welcome

• 01:11 Sponsor: Sentry

• 02:28 Sponsor: LogRocket

• 03:08 My struggle has been with caching, cache control headers and would love a better explanation on some of the fields?

• 04:48 What is a header?

• 06:05 What is caching?

• 08:21 Time to live (TTL)

• 09:08 Benefits of a cache

• 10:03 Specifying how long to cache

• 11:06 max-age

• 12:45 stale-while-revalidate

• 16:17 stale-if-error

• 16:54 must-revalidate

• 17:21 private

• 18:03 immutable

• 19:29 no-transform

• 20:45 Cache Control Request Directives

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