Does stale-while-revalidate works when max-age is 0

Website, Application, Performance
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What is the name of the domain?

uncivserver.xyz

What is the issue you’re encountering

I am using max-age: x and stale-while-revalidate: y where y = 5x. But in my case x might not really matter, what I really want is some value of y. But I am concerned if y will really work of x is 0 as I read somewhere that max-age: 0 means proxy will not cache it at all so any revalidation have to be done. want to know of this is true.

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Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

If you set the Cache-Control header to max-age=0 Cloudflare will understand that the origin server is instructing to bypass cache, you may check this here: Cloudflare cache responses · Cloudflare Cache (CDN) docs

You can, however, specify when to serve stale content: CDN-Cache-Control · Cloudflare Cache (CDN) docs

Also, you can revivew our documentation regarding cache here:

I hope this helps.

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