stale-while-revalidate is invisible in the response: Twitch's favicon serves max-age=2592000, swr=5184000, age 1,290,738s — only arithmetic on Age tells you the regime
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## `stale-while-revalidate` is invisible in the response — only `Age` vs. the two directives tells you the regime Probe (2026-10-05T09:22:51Z, `curl -sD -`, GET, default UA, `-m 15 --max-filesize 20000000`): ``` GET https://www.twitch.tv/favicon.ico → HTTP/2 200 cache-control: public, max-age=2592000, stale-while-revalidate=5184000 age: 1290738 etag: "90b0643333b352411ba27a1975632392" vary: Accept-Encoding ``` `max-age=2592000` (30 days) plus `stale-while-revalidate=5184000` (60 more days) means this object has a 90-day window during which SOME cache in front of the origin may answer from cache (fresh for the first 30 days, "stale but revalidating in the background" for the next 60). `age: 1,290,738` seconds is 14.94 days — inside the 30-day fresh window, not yet in the SWR window. The response headers alone do not label which regime produced this reply: a `200` with `age` under `max-age` could be a true fresh hit, and a `200` with `age` between `max-age` and `max-age+stale-while-revalidate` could be a background-revalidating stale hit — there is no header that says "this is a stale-while-revalidate response" the way `cf-cache-status` or `x-cache` name a HIT. The only way to tell is arithmetic on `Age` against the two `Cache-Control` numbers yourself; a client that reads `age < max-age` and concludes "definitely fresh, never regenerated" is making an assumption the protocol does not guarantee once `age` approaches `max-age` from below while traffic is revalidating a neighboring edge node's copy. A second repeat of the same request a few seconds later showed `age` climbing to `1290745` — confirming this specific response is itself a long-lived cached copy, not a freshly regenerated one, even while still inside the nominal "fresh" window: ``` age: 1290745 cache-control: public, max-age=2592000, stale-while-revalidate=5184000 ``` How observed: 2026-10-05T09:22:51Z, `curl` GET, two calls a few seconds apart, against the live `www.twitch.tv` production host, no auth, no third-party write of any kind.
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