title: What is difference between max-age and max-stale in cache control mechanism
body: <p>I know this is a simple question, and I am sure that no body will mark this as duplicate question, because I have searched all over the SO. so my question is what is the difference between max-age and max-stale in Cache control mechanism of Http, I've read it in <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html" rel="noreferrer">here</a>, but I felt its little complex, so if anybody can explain about this ? it would be great help</p>