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# cachePolicy

The request’s cache policy.

```
var cachePolicy: NSURLRequest.CachePolicy { get set }
```

## Discussion

This property is ignored for requests used to construct [`URLSessionUploadTask`](/documentation/Foundation/URLSessionUploadTask) and [`URLSessionDownloadTask`](/documentation/Foundation/URLSessionDownloadTask) objects, as caching is not supported by the URL Loading System for upload or download requests.

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