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Can setting a cache-control header improve application data security?

We have a custom Web application that in some instances saves sensitive (proprietary) data in users' cache folders. Without re-architecting the application, would a logoff script using Sysinternals ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Says Cache-Control Headers Aren't Used For Crawling & Indexing Unless It's Embedded Content

In 2018, John Mueller of Google said Google does not use cache-control headers when crawling. He said then that the has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. He said that again ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google: Cache-Control Headers Do Not Impact GoogleBot

The Cache-Control general-header has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. The cache-control general-header "field is used to specify directives for caching mechanisms in both ...
Search Engine Land

Google clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers

Google is also asking site owners to allow Google to cache your web pages. Google has added a new section to its crawler and fetcher documentation for HTTP caching, which clarifies how Google’s ...
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Google clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers

Google has added a new section to its crawler and fetcher documentation for HTTP caching, which clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers. With that, Gary Illyes from Google also ...