XecureAPI Gateway's API Caching
Optimize your application's performance and supercharge your client's digital experience with our API Caching feature.
- You can configure the time duration for which your API responses will be cached in the API caching settings for a specific route.
- When the API request is initiated from the client, the API response will be stored in the cache for the configured time duration and the following API requests will be served from the cache.
Our API Gateway Caching Solution
API caching operation depends on multiple conditions!
HTTP Method for API Caching
- The API gateway cache stores data only for the GET and HEAD HTTP methods.
- This helps prevent potential issues that could arise from caching API responses for methods that can modify data, such as POST, PUT, or DELETE.
Cache-Control Headers for API Caching
Cache-Control: max-age=x:
- When the max-age value is defined in the Cache-Control header of the API request, the API gateway checks the time at which the previous API response was cached.
- If the cached response is older than 'x' seconds, the API request is sent to the backend API server, and the cached response is updated.
- If the cached response is within the max-age mentioned, the request is served from the API gateway cache.
- Finally, the response is returned to the client.
Cache-Control: private:
- If the Cache-Control header value is private, the API gateway does not cache the API response and forwards the request to your backend server.
- The API response is usually marked as private when it can only be cached by the client device/browser and not by any intermediate CDNs.
Cache-Control: no-store:
- As the value suggests, no-store defines that the API response should not be cached.
- Our API gateway honors this request and ensures that the API response is not cached.
Cache-Control: no-cache:
- If the Cache-Control header has the value of no-store, the API gateway validates the cached response by sending the request to the API backend server.
- "no-cache" does not mean do not store cache, however, it requires the cache to be revalidated from the API backend server before serving the response to the client.
What Sets Us Apart?
- We provide options to configure the time duration for which the API responses will be stored in the cache
- We provide you with higher control over the API gateway cache for revalidating, updating, and storing the API responses using the Cache-Control headers
- We optimize your API performance using API caching
- We provide developer-friendly documentation
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Frequently Asked Questions
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