Chrome Not Caching HTTP 301 Redirect

Question

I'm working on dynamic HTTP 301 Redirect responses for an ASP.Net project, and they are cached correctly in Firefox, but no matter what I set the cache headers to, the redirect is never cached by Chrome:

Headers General:

Request URL:https:// domain /old/spot

Request Method:GET

Status Code:301

Remote Address:127.0.0.1:443

Referrer Policy:no-referrer-when-downgrade

Response Headers:

cache-control:private, max-age=3600

content-length:0

content-type:text/html

date:Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:03:28 GMT

expires:Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:03:28 GMT

location:/blog1/test

server:Microsoft-IIS/10.0

status:301

Request Headers:

:authority: domain

:method:GET

:path:/old/spot

:scheme:https

user-agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36

Answer 1

With self-signed SSL certificates, Chrome ignores all caching directives and reloads the content ... This is a known issue with Chrome browser. It does not cache responses if the HTTPS connection is using an invalid Certificate. See this bug report for details: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110649#c8

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/cache-problems-on-chrome-with-SSL-certificate-errors.html

We're going to work around by testing with a valid certificate and HOST file changes.