Is there any difference between doing a “GET” request (type URL and Enter) compared to simply refreshing (CtrlR) the page?
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Is there any difference between doing a “GET” request (type URL and Enter) compared to simply refreshing (CtrlR) the page?
Most browsers ignore the Expires header if we do a “page refresh”, yet respect it if we do a “url visit”.
However, different browsers have their own way of differentiating “refresh” and “url visit”, the only way to be sure is to manually test each one of them.