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Can web content providers override caching for content that they know will change often, or for content that they simply do not want cached?

April 26, 2017cached caching content override

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Can web content providers override caching for content that they know will change often, or for content that they simply do not want cached?

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Yes; a web server can use standard HTTP header fields to tell the CacheQube not to cache particular content that is desired not to be cacheable. In addition, the CacheQube employs heuristics to avoid caching dynamically-generated content (i.e. output from CGI scripts).