I think the benefits of HTTP caching are often exaggerated, especially for APIs and single page applications. Often I’ll want much more control over caching an

I think the benefits of HTTP caching are often exaggerated, especially for APIs and single page applications. Often I’ll want much more control over caching and cache invalidation than what you can do with HTTP caching. I’d be interested to see an analysis of major websites usage of HTTP caching on non-static (i.e. not images, JS, etc) resources. I bet it’s pretty minimal.