Surrogate-Control

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Alternative to Cache-Control response header for CDNs and reverse proxies.

Fastly reads this header from responses. It is proprietary to Fastly.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://developer.fastly.com/reference/http/http-headers/surrogate-control
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Worth mentioning that setting this header in vcl_fetch won’t have any effect. If you want to control caching in vcl_fetch, you need to set beresp.cacheable/beresp.ttl/etc instead.

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Also worth mentioning that Fastly strips out this header from the response before sending to the end user, which is documented at Cache freshness and TTLs.