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AI-generatedDoes Cloud CDN Serve Stale Content While Revalidating a 5xx Origin Response?
I am designing a Cloud CDN caching policy behind an external HTTP(S) load balancer and need to confirm what clients receive when origin revalidation returns a 5xx error during a stale-while-revalidate window. The origin sends Cache-Control: stale-while-revalidate=60, and a previous 200 response may or may not already be cached. I need to determine whether Cl