diff --git a/defaults/yacy.init b/defaults/yacy.init
index 37911223e..31018bcc0 100644
--- a/defaults/yacy.init
+++ b/defaults/yacy.init
@@ -244,6 +244,9 @@ proxyCache = DATA/HTCACHE
 # default: 4 Gigabyte
 proxyCacheSize = 4096
 
+# you can use the proxy with fresh/stale rules or in a always-fresh mode
+proxyAlwaysFresh = false
+
 # a path to the surrogate input directory
 surrogates.in = DATA/SURROGATES/in
 
diff --git a/htroot/SettingsAck_p.html b/htroot/SettingsAck_p.html
index 94741d49c..4530a40a4 100644
--- a/htroot/SettingsAck_p.html
+++ b/htroot/SettingsAck_p.html
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@
           <td>Transparent Proxy Support is:</td>
           <td class="settingsValue">#[isTransparentProxy]#</td>
       </tr>
+      <tr>
+          <td>Always Fresh is:</td>
+          <td class="settingsValue">#[proxyAlwaysFresh]#</td>
+      </tr>
       <tr>
           <td>Send via header is:</td>
           <td class="settingsValue">#[proxy.sendViaHeader]#</td>
diff --git a/htroot/SettingsAck_p.java b/htroot/SettingsAck_p.java
index 25c41fc6b..d8f5c27ff 100644
--- a/htroot/SettingsAck_p.java
+++ b/htroot/SettingsAck_p.java
@@ -154,7 +154,12 @@ public class SettingsAck_p {
             boolean isTransparentProxy = post.containsKey("isTransparentProxy");
             env.setConfig("isTransparentProxy", isTransparentProxy);
             prop.put("info_isTransparentProxy", isTransparentProxy ? "on" : "off");
-
+            
+            // set proxyAlwaysFresh flag
+            boolean proxyAlwaysFresh = post.containsKey("proxyAlwaysFresh");
+            env.setConfig("proxyAlwaysFresh", proxyAlwaysFresh);
+            prop.put("info_proxyAlwaysFresh", proxyAlwaysFresh ? "on" : "off");
+            
             // setting via header property
             env.setConfig("proxy.sendViaHeader", post.containsKey("proxy.sendViaHeader"));
             prop.put("info_proxy.sendViaHeader", post.containsKey("proxy.sendViaHeader")? "on" : "off");
diff --git a/htroot/Settings_ProxyAccess.inc b/htroot/Settings_ProxyAccess.inc
index 6bfbbd0eb..373e97fbf 100644
--- a/htroot/Settings_ProxyAccess.inc
+++ b/htroot/Settings_ProxyAccess.inc
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@
       <small><code>iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.0.0/16 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.1:#[port]#</code></small>
     </td>
   </tr>  
+  <tr valign="top">
+    <td><label for="via_header">Always Fresh</label>:</td>
+    <td><input type="checkbox" name="proxyAlwaysFresh" id="proxyAlwaysFresh" #(proxyAlwaysFresh)#::checked="checked" #(/proxyAlwaysFresh)#/></td>
+    <td>
+      If unchecked, the proxy will act using Cache Fresh / Cache Stale rules. If checked, the cache is always fresh which means
+      that a page is never loaded again if it was already stored in the cache. However, if the page does not exist in the cache, it will be loaded in any case.
+    </td>
+  </tr> 
   <tr valign="top">
     <td><label for="via_header">Send "Via" Header</label>:</td>
     <td><input type="checkbox" name="proxy.sendViaHeader" id="via_header" #(proxy.sendViaHeader)#::checked="checked" #(/proxy.sendViaHeader)#/></td>
diff --git a/htroot/Settings_p.java b/htroot/Settings_p.java
index 1386e6ee8..af1a7c0ac 100644
--- a/htroot/Settings_p.java
+++ b/htroot/Settings_p.java
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ public final class Settings_p {
         
         // http networking settings
         prop.put("isTransparentProxy", env.getConfigBool("isTransparentProxy", false) ? "1" : "0");
+        prop.put("proxyAlwaysFresh", env.getConfigBool("proxyAlwaysFresh", false) ? "1" : "0");
         prop.put("proxy.sendViaHeader", env.getConfigBool("proxy.sendViaHeader", false) ? "1" : "0");
         prop.put("proxy.sendXForwardedForHeader", env.getConfigBool("proxy.sendXForwardedForHeader", true) ? "1" : "0");
         
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/Response.java b/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/Response.java
index a0cca651b..0680a1fed 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/Response.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/crawler/retrieval/Response.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import net.yacy.crawler.data.ResultURLs.EventOrigin;
 import net.yacy.document.Document;
 import net.yacy.document.Parser;
 import net.yacy.document.TextParser;
+import net.yacy.search.Switchboard;
 
 public class Response {
 
@@ -419,6 +420,8 @@ public class Response {
      */
     public boolean isFreshForProxy() {
 
+        if (Switchboard.getSwitchboard().getConfigBool("proxyAlwaysFresh", false)) return true;
+        
         // -CGI access in request
         // CGI access makes the page very individual, and therefore not usable
         // in caches