Is Chrome ignoring Cache-Control: max-age?

Question

Background:

• IIS 7
• AspNet 3.5 web app

Chrome dev tools lists 98 requests for the home page of the web app (aspx + js + css + images). I

Answer 1

Quite an old question, but I noticed just recently (2020), that Chrome sometimes ignores the Cache-Control headers for my image resources when browsing using an Incognito window.

"Sometimes" because in my case the Cache-Control directive was honored for small images (~60-200KB), but not for larger ones (10MB).

Not using Incognito window resulted in Chrome using the disk cached version even for the large images.