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12th December 2007 - Link Blog

Two HTTP Caching Extensions. stale-while-revalidate serves cached content even while a refresh has been triggered and is currently being pulled in to the cache; stale-if-error serves cached content if a service has gone down.

Posted 12th December 2007 at 11:23 am

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