Age header

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The HTTP Age response header indicates the time in seconds for which an object was in a proxy cache.

The header value is usually close to zero. If the value is 0, the object was probably fetched from the origin server; otherwise, the value is usually calculated as a difference between the proxy's current date and the Date general header included in the HTTP response.

Header type Response header
Forbidden request header No

Syntax

http
Age: <delta-seconds>

Directives

<delta-seconds>

A non-negative integer that represents the time in seconds for which the object was in a proxy cache.

Examples

http
Age: 24

Specifications

Specification
HTTP Caching
# field.age

Browser compatibility

See also