I read that when you don't have access to the web server's headers you can turn off the cache using:

Jul 12, 2016 · But what I would like to do is to apply ?nocache=1 to every URL related to the site (including the assets like style.css) so that I get the non cached version of the files.

Our investigations have shown us that not all browsers respect the HTTP cache directives in a uniform manner. For security reasons we do not want certain pages in our application to be cached, eve...

Dec 19, 2010 · This Stack Overflow page explains how to set HTTP headers for cache control in web development, including examples and best practices.

Aug 14, 2025 · When I open the dev tool and select Disable Cache, chrome adds Cache-Control: no-cache in request header for all requests. But if I press ctrl + F5 or click on Empty Cache and hard …

Ok, even if you aren't using express, what essentially needed is to set the nocache headers. I'm adding the headers in a reusable middleware, otherwise you can set those headers in any way that works.

no-store should not be necessary in normal situations, and in some cases can harm speed and usability. It was intended as a privacy measure: it tells browsers and caches that the response contains …

Apr 4, 2012 · If your class or action didn't have NoCache when it was rendered in your browser and you want to check it's working, remember that after compiling the changes you need to do a "hard …

Beware of ETag Even if you are using nocache, the ETag header isn't removed, because it works in a different way. It's generated at the end of the request and could be another source of unintended …

Jun 26, 2009 · The header Cache-Control: max-age=0 implies that the content is considered stale (and must be re-fetched) immediately, which is in effect the same thing as Cache-Control: no-cache.