Default Internal Max-Age

Category: Caching

Purpose: Determines the default max-age interval for edge server to origin server cache revalidation. In other words, the amount of time that will pass before an edge server will check whether a cached asset matches the asset stored on the origin server.

Key information:

Default Value: Requests that do not provide a max-age indication via either their Cache-Control or Expires header will be assigned a default internal max-age interval of 7 days.