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Does this mean ealtime websites like the BBC News site or eBay will no longer contain live information?

April 26, 2017BBC News contain eBay live longer mean realtime site Websites

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Does this mean
ealtime websites like the BBC News site or eBay will no longer contain live information?

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No, the proxy server is told by the websites it visits how long it should remember the page visited for, or the last time the page was updated. Therefore, live pages should only be cached for a very short period of time, if at all.