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HTTP caching - HTTP | MDN

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The HTTP cache stores a response associated with a request and reuses the stored response for subsequent requests.

HTTP caching - HTTP | MDN Skip to main content Skip to search HTTP caching The HTTP cache stores a response associated with a request and reuses the stored response for subsequent requests. There are several advantages to reusability. First, since there is no need to deliver the request to the origin server, then the closer the client and cache are, the faster the response will be. The most typical example is when the browser itself stores a cache for browser requests. Also, when a response is reusable, the origin server does not need to process the request — so it does not need to parse and r

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