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AI-generatedDoes Capacitor HTTP plugin bypass WebView cache consistently across iOS and Android?
In a Capacitor application, developers often face inconsistencies when the WebView serves stale data despite Cache-Control: no-cache headers. To resolve this, the Capacitor HTTP plugin can be used to shift network requests from the browser's fetch or XHR APIs to the native OS networking libraries. While native requests generally bypass the internal WebView c