Should intermediate proxies recognize <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control">?

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Is the HTML tag:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store">

equivalent to the HTTP response header Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, especially from the perspective of intermediate proxies and caches (between the client and the server)?

Should an intermediate cache parse all the HTML-<head> section, looking for these types of headers?

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No, proxies should not have to read the document, and in general will not do so.