diff --git a/RSWeb/Sources/RSWeb/CacheControlInfo.swift b/RSWeb/Sources/RSWeb/CacheControlInfo.swift
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c1da4f1ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RSWeb/Sources/RSWeb/CacheControlInfo.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+//
+//  CacheControl.swift
+//  RSWeb
+//
+//  Created by Brent Simmons on 11/30/24.
+//
+
+import Foundation
+
+/// Basic Cache-Control handling — just the part we need,
+/// which is to know when we got the response (dateCreated)
+/// and when we can ask again (dateExpired).
+public struct CacheControlInfo: Codable, Equatable {
+
+	let dateCreated: Date
+	let maxAge: TimeInterval
+
+	var dateExpired: Date {
+		dateCreated + maxAge
+	}
+
+	public init?(urlResponse: HTTPURLResponse) {
+		guard let cacheControlValue = urlResponse.valueForHTTPHeaderField(HTTPResponseHeader.cacheControl) else {
+			return nil
+		}
+		self.init(value: cacheControlValue)
+	}
+
+	/// Returns nil if there’s no max-age or it’s < 1.
+	public init?(value: String) {
+
+		guard let maxAge = Self.parseMaxAge(value) else {
+			return nil
+		}
+		
+		let d = Date()
+		self.dateCreated = d
+		self.maxAge = maxAge
+	}
+}
+
+private extension CacheControlInfo {
+
+	static let maxAgePrefix = "max-age="
+	static let maxAgePrefixCount = maxAgePrefix.count
+
+	static func parseMaxAge(_ s: String) -> TimeInterval? {
+
+		let components = s.components(separatedBy: ",")
+		let trimmedComponents = components.map { $0.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces) }
+
+		for component in trimmedComponents {
+			if component.hasPrefix(Self.maxAgePrefix) {
+				let maxAgeStringValue = component.dropFirst(maxAgePrefixCount)
+				if let timeInterval = TimeInterval(maxAgeStringValue), timeInterval > 0 {
+					return timeInterval
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		return nil
+	}
+}
diff --git a/RSWeb/Sources/RSWeb/DownloadSession.swift b/RSWeb/Sources/RSWeb/DownloadSession.swift
index 311d744f8..7224181c9 100755
--- a/RSWeb/Sources/RSWeb/DownloadSession.swift
+++ b/RSWeb/Sources/RSWeb/DownloadSession.swift
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 //
 
 import Foundation
+import os
 
 // Create a DownloadSessionDelegate, then create a DownloadSession.
 // To download things: call download with a set of URLs. DownloadSession will call the various delegate methods.
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ public protocol DownloadSessionDelegate {
 	private let delegate: DownloadSessionDelegate
 	private var redirectCache = [URL: URL]()
 	private var queue = [URL]()
+	private var cacheControlResponses = [URL: CacheControlInfo]()
 
 	// 429 Too Many Requests responses
 	private var retryAfterMessages = [String: HTTPResponse429]()
@@ -128,9 +130,10 @@ extension DownloadSession: URLSessionDataDelegate {
 
 		tasksInProgress.insert(dataTask)
 		tasksPending.remove(dataTask)
-		
-		if let info = infoForTask(dataTask) {
-			info.urlResponse = response
+
+		let taskInfo = infoForTask(dataTask)
+		if let taskInfo {
+			taskInfo.urlResponse = response
 		}
 
 		if !response.statusIsOK {
@@ -149,6 +152,15 @@ extension DownloadSession: URLSessionDataDelegate {
 			return
 		}
 
+		if let httpURLResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse, let cacheControlInfo = CacheControlInfo(urlResponse: httpURLResponse) {
+			if let url = taskInfo?.url {
+				cacheControlResponses[url] = cacheControlInfo
+				if let actualURL = response.url, actualURL != url {
+					cacheControlResponses[actualURL] = cacheControlInfo
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		
 		addDataTaskFromQueueIfNecessary()
 		completionHandler(.allow)
 	}
@@ -182,9 +194,15 @@ private extension DownloadSession {
 		let urlToUse = cachedRedirect(for: url) ?? url
 
 		if requestShouldBeDroppedDueToActive429(urlToUse) {
+			os_log(.debug, "Dropping request for previous 429: \(urlToUse)")
 			return
 		}
 		if requestShouldBeDroppedDueToPrevious400(urlToUse) {
+			os_log(.debug, "Dropping request for previous 400-499: \(urlToUse)")
+			return
+		}
+		if requestShouldBeDroppedDueToCacheControl(urlToUse) {
+			os_log(.debug, "Dropping request for Cache-Control reasons: \(urlToUse)")
 			return
 		}
 
@@ -380,6 +398,17 @@ private extension DownloadSession {
 
 		return false
 	}
+
+	// MARK: - Cache-Control responses
+
+	func requestShouldBeDroppedDueToCacheControl(_ url: URL) -> Bool {
+
+		guard let cacheControlInfo = cacheControlResponses[url] else {
+			return false
+		}
+
+		return cacheControlInfo.dateExpired > Date()
+	}
 }
 
 extension URLSessionTask {