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CacheControlMaxAge

CacheControlMaxAge specifies the HTTP 1.1 cache control maximum age value. The value of this property ranges from 0 to 4294967295 (or unlimited), measured in seconds.

The metabase represents unlimited as the DWORD value of 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF); however, VBScript represents unlimited in hexadecimal format as &HFFFFFFFF. Previous versions of IIS represented unlimited as -1.

Attribute Name Attribute Value
XML Data Type DWORD
WMI Data Type
SINT32
ADSI Data Type DWORD
ABO Data Type DWORD
ABO Metabase identifier
MD_CC_MAX_AGE
Attributes INHERIT
Default Value 0
MetaFlagsEx CACHE_PROPERTY_MODIFIED
User Type IIS_MD_UT_FILE
StartingNumber Not applicable
EndingNumber 0
ID 6042

Configurable Locations

You can configure this property at the following locations in the IIS metabase.

Metabase Path IIS Admin Object Type
/LM/W3SVC/n/ROOT
/LM/W3SVC/n/ROOT/virtual_directory_name
IIsWebVirtualDir
/LM/W3SVC/n IIsWebServer
/LM/W3SVC IIsWebService
/LM/W3SVC/n/ROOT/file_name
/LM/W3SVC/n/ROOT/virtual_directory_name/file_name
IIsWebFile
/LM/W3SVC/n/ROOT/physical_directory_name
/LM/W3SVC/n/virtual_directory_name/physical_directory_name
IIsWebDirectory

Code Example

For general code examples, please see Code Examples to Configure Metabase Properties