What is Cache-Control: private?

Question

When I visit chesseng.herokuapp.com I get a response header that looks like

Cache-Control:private
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Type:te         


        

Answer 1

Cache-Control: private

Indicates that all or part of the response message is intended for a single user and MUST NOT be cached by a shared cache, such as a proxy server.

From RFC2616 section 14.9.1