Chapter 9. Caching

The distributed nature of the Web provides many opportunities for performance improvement through caching. In general, caching is the temporary storage of state for faster retrieval. Caching for Web applications can occur on the client (browser caching), on a server between the client and the Web server (proxy caching), and on the Web server itself (page caching or data caching). Both browser caching and proxy caching reduce Web server traffic by serving content either directly from the client's machine or from an intermediate proxy server, and are thus not directly managed by ASP.NET (although your ASP.NET pages can specify browser and proxy caching options by adding the appropriate metatags, Cache-Control headers, and Expires ...

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