What is the timespan type of max-age in the HTTP response header? Seconds, minutes?

Question

In the HTTP response header for my website it is returning a header that contains the following value.

"Cache-Control: max-age=3600"

Is 3600 in seconds or minutes?

score 30 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 23 '16 at 11:45

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max-age

Indicates that the client is willing to accept a response whose age is no greater than the specified time in seconds...

edited Sep 23 '16 at 11:45

gnat

answered Aug 01 '11 at 05:21

jcomeau_ictx

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '11 at 05:22

11

It's in seconds, so the value you quoted corresponds to 1 hour.

answered Aug 01 '11 at 05:22

Andrew Cooper

was confused at first but this clarifies it, thank you for the straightforward answer – pbojinov Feb 07 '12 at 21:43

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