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How does this webview manage CORS preflight caching ?

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What are the defaults for handling CORS preflight caching? It appears on Android device its set to 10minutes...I haven't checked iOS yet. From the client/app perspective, can they be overridden?

On normal browsers like chrome or safari the CORS preflight can be cached - but those browses cache them at different intervals. I believe chrome is hard set to 10 minutes, Firefox is two hours but Safari is like 24 hours (I could be wrong on the ordering). But what are the `ionic-webviews` bound to?

I ask because in my ionic app, switching between views causes CORS preflights to execute again. It appears any first call to a server script is calling a new CORS preflight. If page view auto calls `getInfo.php` - then a CORS preflight is cached just for that script, if any call to that script happens again, the cached preflight is used. But If on the same page view, a user clicks a button that makes a call to the server script `showInfo.php` then a new CORS preflight is created. Is it possible to have all server api calls use the first cached CORS preflight info?

How would $http headers cache impact the use of CORS caching?....can any of those $http caching headers override or impact the CORS caching sent from the server with the `Header always set Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400` set?

I created an SO question regarding this, providing more technical detail, but so far it hasn't gotten any responses that really answers the questions. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69812308/cordova-page-view-cache-vs-http-cache-vs-cors-preflight-caching

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