Priority of cache-control, expires, x-accel-expires

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 07:05:42PM -0500, brianmercer wrote:

> How does nginx caching handle multiple cache control headers sent from a
> backend?
> 
> I had a situation where I was sending both expires and cache-control and
> it seemed that the order in which they were sent controlled.  I solved
> that problem by ignoring the expires header.  

First of the Expires and/or Cache-Control is used.

> I thought I recalled that x-accel-expires would override any other
> headers regardless of order, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

X-Accel-Expires will override both Expires and Cache-Control, 
regardless of the order.

Maxim Dounin