diff --git a/.github/workflows/update.yml b/.github/workflows/update.yml
index 7021efb1..3a1249ba 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/update.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/update.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           format: YYYY-ww # 2022-01 to 2022-52 for eg
 
-      - name: Cache fetched repositories
+      - name: Cache fetched repositories and HTTP requests
         uses: actions/cache@v4
         with:
           path: ~/.cache
diff --git a/src/apple.py b/src/apple.py
index 93d6c818..71fb4218 100644
--- a/src/apple.py
+++ b/src/apple.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ DATE_PATTERN = re.compile(r"\b\d+\s[A-Za-z]+\s\d+\b")
 for config in endoflife.list_configs_from_argv():
     with releasedata.ProductData(config.product) as product_data:
         # URLs are cached to avoid rate limiting by support.apple.com.
-        soups = [BeautifulSoup(response.text, features="html5lib") for response in http.fetch_urls(URLS, cache=True)]
+        soups = [BeautifulSoup(response.text, features="html5lib") for response in http.fetch_urls(URLS)]
 
         for soup in soups:
             versions_table = soup.find(id="tableWraper")
diff --git a/src/common/http.py b/src/common/http.py
index 166c68b9..08084e33 100644
--- a/src/common/http.py
+++ b/src/common/http.py
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/1
 
 
 def fetch_urls(urls: list[str], data: any = None, headers: dict[str, str] = None,
-               max_retries: int = 10, backoff_factor: float = 0.5, timeout: int = 30,
-               cache: bool = False) -> list[Response]:
+               max_retries: int = 10, backoff_factor: float = 0.5, timeout: int = 30) -> list[Response]:
     logging.info(f"Fetching {urls}")
 
     try:
-        underlying_session = CachedSession('/tmp/http_cache', backend='filesystem') if cache else None
-        with FuturesSession(session=underlying_session) as session:
+        # Respect Cache-Control header if available, and allow stale responses in case of errors.
+        cache_session = CachedSession('~/.cache/http', backend='filesystem', cache_control=True, stale_if_error=True)
+        with FuturesSession(session=cache_session) as session:
             adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=Retry(total=max_retries, backoff_factor=backoff_factor))
             session.mount('http://', adapter)
             session.mount('https://', adapter)