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Expires

The Expires header contains the date/time after which the response is considered stale.

Invalid dates, like the value 0, represent a date in the past and mean that the resource is already expired.

If there is a Cache-Control header with the "max-age" or "s-maxage" directive in the response, the Expires header is ignored.

Syntax

Expires: <http-date>

Directives

<http-date>

An HTTP-date timestamp.

Examples

Expires: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT

Specifications

Specification Title
RFC 7234, section 5.3: Expires Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching

Browser compatibility

Feature Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari
Basic support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Feature Android webview Chrome for Android Edge mobile Firefox for Android IE mobile Opera Android iOS Safari
Basic support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Expires