An NGINX reverse proxy caches responses from an upstream API. The API sometimes returns 500 errors during maintenance. The team wants to serve stale cached responses when the upstream is unavailable, but only for responses that were previously cached successfully. Which directive should be used?

proxy_cache_bypass $http_cache_control;

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An NGINX reverse proxy caches responses from an upstream API. The API sometimes returns 500 errors during maintenance. The team wants to serve stale cached responses when the upstream is unavailable, but only for responses that were previously cached successfully. Which directive should be used?

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