Like many of you, I was seeing and using these two meta tags for years,
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="now">
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
without much thinking of what exactly they are for, except that they are used to ensure that browser loads new content rather than cached one.
Now I bumped into a client who thinks that horrible performance of his website will be improved by doing the opposite: forcing website to load cached content. Namely, he is sure that it will be much better when we force caching in HTML head.
I have an access only to front end resources. I searched around and haven't found what values would be the opposite of "now"
and "no-cache"
. All searches only return results about how to turn of caching.
Of course, any other ideas to achieve this just within HTML templates are welcome :)
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