Vercel CDN now respects Cache-Control headers from external origins by default
Starting April 6th, new Vercel projects will automatically honor Cache-Control headers when proxying requests to external origins, eliminating the need for the x-vercel-enable-rewrite-caching header. Existing projects can opt into this new caching behavior from the project dashboard.
New Vercel projects will honor by default when proxying requests to external origins, starting April 6th.cache-controlheaders
Previously, responses served through rewrites to external origins were uncached by default, and enabling caching required the header in . Now, Vercel's CDN automatically respects your origin's caching headers.x-vercel-enable-rewrite-cachingvercel.json
What's changing:
Review your upstream cache headers before April 6th when creating a new project that proxies to external origins without caching, ensuring they reflect your intended caching strategy.
Learn more about and configure routing in the of your project settings.Rewrites to External OriginsCDN tab
For new projects, Vercel will cache responses from external origins according to upstream , and headers by default.
Cache-ControlCDN-Cache-ControlVercel-CDN-Cache-ControlYou can use ( header) from your origins to purge cached content.Cache Tags
Vercel-Cache-TagExisting projects can opt in to the new caching behavior from the .project dashboard
You can opt out of caching for specific request paths by setting the header to .
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