From 3f4bb4dde95657db59c2af9128e7070c64fe42d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mukunda katta <mukunda.vjcs6@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 07:47:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify fetch cache behavior

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 doc/api/globals.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/api/globals.md b/doc/api/globals.md
index a70442f1bb91ec..9d3b17ad88f370 100644
--- a/doc/api/globals.md
+++ b/doc/api/globals.md
@@ -567,6 +567,10 @@ The implementation is based upon [undici](https://undici.nodejs.org), an HTTP/1.
 written from scratch for Node.js. You can figure out which version of `undici` is bundled
 in your Node.js process reading the `process.versions.undici` property.
 
+Node.js does not implement a browser-style HTTP cache for `fetch()`. Options
+such as `cache` are accepted for Web API compatibility, but do not make repeated
+requests reuse cached responses.
+
 ### Custom dispatcher
 
 You can use a custom dispatcher to dispatch requests passing it in fetch's options object.