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The response headers indicates photos are set to expire in exactly 14 days. Does Akamai not honor cache-related headers from the origin URL? If it does, couldn't Facebook just generate URLs that includes an rolling expiration date so that when the CDN pulls from the origin URL again, Facebook may send a file-not-found placeholder image?


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