I am trying to determine what is caching web page responses within the server infrastructure in a transparent cache like behaviour.
The cache header defined by the origin server is fixed one hour (3600).
When a standard browser request is made without a cache control header in the request, we are seeing cached output and a modified cache-control header in the response:
cache-control: public, max-age=3421
Cloudfront is involved but configured to not cache this page. In the same response we also see
x-cache: Miss from Cloudfront
If a refresh request is made by the browser which adds cache-control:none to the request header, we then see fresh content from the server and the max-age is back to 3600.
Based on this behaviour with the max-age appearing to ‘count down’ over time, is it possible to determine what application or system is caching content? There should not be a cache enabled.
Possible systems involved include appDynamics and f5 big-ip
