Caching Web Pages

Responses returned by Web servers can be cached in various places during their path to their target client applications. They can be cached in various Internet intermediary nodes, and in the browser cache itself.

HTTP standard headers control the way a response must be cached and when it can be cached. ASP.NET Core supports Web response caching through the ResponseCacheAttribute action filter that manipulates the HTTP headers that affect response caching. It also allows response caching on the Web server itself.

In the sections below, we will describe the HTTP ...