Chapter 23 WAN Optimization, Web Cache, Explicit Proxy, and WCCP : Web caching and SSL offloading : Changing web cache settings : Negative response duration
  
Negative response duration
Set how long in minutes that the FortiGate unit caches error responses from web servers. If error responses are cached, then subsequent requests to the web cache from users will receive the error responses regardless of the actual object status.
The default is 0, meaning error responses are not cached. The content server might send a client error code (4xx HTTP response) or a server error code (5xx HTTP response) as a response to some requests. If the web cache is configured to cache these negative responses, it returns that response in subsequent requests for that page or image for the specified number of minutes.