The **<staticFile>**Â tag controls caching for media assets; the content produced by editors in edit view.
The [Configure CMS](🔗)topic describes the syntax used in the description of the configuration elements.

Note
The `
staticFile` element is optional. The following default configuration values are set in code and are overridden if other values are specified in the _web.config_ file.
| Name | Default value | Description |
| [cacheControl](🔗) | auto | The cache policy to be used for static files. Possible values are **auto** or one of the values [HttpCacheability found att MSDN.com](🔗). <br>If the value is set to **auto**, the actual cache policy to be used is calculated for each request. If the request is made by an authenticated user, the cache policy will be `HttpCacheability.Private`, otherwise `HttpCacheability.Public`. |
| [enableOutputCache](🔗) | false | Defines if the output cache is used. |
| [expirationTime](🔗) | 12:0:0 | `TimeSpan` that is added to `DateTime.UtcNow` to calculate the `Expires` HTTP header value. |