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Header category

Caching

Headers that tell an intermediary what it may store and for how long. The oldest, best-specified corner of HTTP, and the one API providers most routinely ignore.

16 headers
206 provider declarations
HeaderProvidersStatus
Cache-Control 144 permanent regulated
Expires 26 permanent
Pragma 19 deprecated
Vary 13 permanent
Warning 2 obsoleted
Surrogate-Control 1 provisional
Age 1 permanent
AMP-Cache-Transform provisional
Refresh permanent
Meter permanent
Memento-Datetime permanent
CDN-Cache-Control permanent
Cache-Status permanent
Cache-Groups permanent
Cache-Group-Invalidation permanent
Surrogate-Capability provisional

All categories

Authentication Authorization & Scope Caching Conditional Requests & Concurrency Content Negotiation Representation Metadata Connection & Transport CORS Security Policy Privacy & Consent Rate Limiting & Quota Tracing & Correlation Idempotency & Reliability Versioning & Lifecycle Integrity & Signing Async & Long-Running Cost & Metering Agent & Bot Identity

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Every header here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP. HTTP Headers is not yet its own endpoint on the v1 API. Reach it through catalog search and the tag graph, or the MCP server.

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Tools for http headers

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  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/search?q=caching&limit=10"
Everything under a tag
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags/caching"

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