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HTTP headers we don't want

by @fastly fastly.com published 2024-12-06

HTTP headers are an important way of controlling how caches and browsers process your web content. But many are used incorrectly or pointlessly, which adds overhead at a critical time in the loading of your page, and may not work as you intended.

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