On 22 May 2018, at 20:52, Sebastien Boisvert <sebastienboisv...@yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> Do background sessions ignore the cache (with regards to populating it)?

Probably.  While I’ve never explicitly investigated this, the background 
session architecture, where the actual networking is done inside a system 
process, isn’t compatible with custom caching.

Note that the ‘will cache response’ delegate callback takes a data task, and 
data tasks have only limited support in background sessions.  Specifically, you 
can run a data task in a background session but it will fail if your app gets 
suspended [1].  Honestly, it’s quite rare to use a data task in a background 
session.

Which brings me to:

> I have a need to make several requests for (small) resources …

Background sessions are optimised for a small number of large requests, making 
me suspect you’d be better off using a standard session.  Why are you using a 
background session here?

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[1] This is on iOS 8 and later.  In the original iOS 7 implementation, data 
tasks were simply not supported in background sessions.

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