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The stale-while-revalidate HTTP Cache-Control Extension
draft-nottingham-http-stale-while-revalidate-01

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Mark Nottingham
Last updated 2008-05-08
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Abstract

The stale-while-revalidate HTTP response Cache-Control extension allows servers to instruct caches to serve stale responses while validating them, to avoid latency in some situations.

Authors

Mark Nottingham

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