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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
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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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