Difficult to understand a sentence in Private Cache section

[aakashsardana]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Caching

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

Private Caches

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

In the Private Caches section there is a sentence

If the response has an Authorization header, it cannot be stored in either the private cache or the shared cache, even if it has max-age — and public can be used to allow such a case

The first half of the sentence is clear but I am not able to understand this-:

— and public can be used to allow such a case

Does it means that if we specify public when there is Authorization header then the response would be stored in a shared cache?

What did you expect to see?

Not able to understand the sentence mentioned above. A bit more clarity on this would be helpful

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

No response

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Page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/http/caching
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Caching
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/http/caching/index.md
• Last commit: 4a43f2f
• Document last modified: 2022-06-01T06:37:19.000Z

[hamishwillee]

Thanks, yes it is confusing. Fixed by #17214

In summary, the text means that you can use public to make a response be stored in a shared cache even if the Authorization header is set.
IMO the problem with all this text is that it is irrelevant to using the private directive, which is what the section is about. I stripped it out and moved the comment on using public to where the information on public is located.

[aakashsardana]

Yes now it is pretty much clear. Thanks @hamishwillee 👍