diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index a7d96d35..591dbf72 100644
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -1402,10 +1402,10 @@ to the inability of server-side scripts to cope with the connections.
 @cindex cache
 @item --no-cache
 Disable server-side cache.  In this case, Wget will send the remote
-server an appropriate directive (@samp{Pragma: no-cache}) to get the
-file from the remote service, rather than returning the cached version.
-This is especially useful for retrieving and flushing out-of-date
-documents on proxy servers.
+server appropriate directives (@samp{Cache-Control: no-cache} and
+@samp{Pragma: no-cache}) to get the file from the remote service,
+rather than returning the cached version. This is especially useful
+for retrieving and flushing out-of-date documents on proxy servers.
 
 Caching is allowed by default.
 
diff --git a/src/wget.h b/src/wget.h
index 35b1ef1c..50b28518 100644
--- a/src/wget.h
+++ b/src/wget.h
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ enum
                                            or application/xhtml+xml */
   RETROKF              = 0x0002,        /* retrieval was OK */
   HEAD_ONLY            = 0x0004,        /* only send the HEAD request */
-  SEND_NOCACHE         = 0x0008,        /* send Pragma: no-cache directive */
+  SEND_NOCACHE         = 0x0008,        /* send Cache-Control: no-cache and Pragma: no-cache directive */
   ACCEPTRANGES         = 0x0010,        /* Accept-ranges header was found */
   ADDED_HTML_EXTENSION = 0x0020,        /* added ".html" extension due to -E */
   TEXTCSS              = 0x0040,        /* document is of type text/css */