What is the timespan type of max-age in the HTTP response header? Seconds, minutes?

Asked 1/8, 2011 at 5:19 Answered 1/8, 2011 at 5:22

In the HTTP response header for my website it is returning a header that contains the following value.

"Cache-Control: max-age=3600"

Is 3600 in seconds or minutes?

Socha answered 1/8, 2011 at 5:19 Comment(0)

max-age

Indicates that the client is willing to accept a response whose age is no greater than the specified time in seconds...

Muldoon answered 1/8, 2011 at 5:21 Comment(0)

It's in seconds, so the value you quoted corresponds to 1 hour.

Ferrara answered 1/8, 2011 at 5:22 Comment(1)

was confused at first but this clarifies it, thank you for the straightforward answer – Massotherapy 7/2, 2012 at 21:43