I've been searching for info on how to disable client side caching on project level. I know I can add the following before an action method:
[System.Web.Mvc.OutputCache(NoStore = true, Duration = 0, VaryByParam = "*")]
I also read something about making profiles for caching, but that would also mean refering to them in several places. I would like a single setting in web.config, or maybe in IIS?
The project I'm working on contains a lot of partial views
Thank you in advance for any advice in this matter.
You can disable browser caching via Web.Config:
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>
<add name="Cache-Control" value="no-cache, no-store" />
<add name="Pragma" value="no-cache" />
<add name="Expires" value="-1" />
</customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Source: http://blog.jamesjones.name/2009/11/how-to-disable-browser-caching-in.html
Edit: added no-store
to Cache-Control
for Chrome ( http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28035 )
You can set this at the project level or at the subdirectory level to control browser caching as desired. For example, in a primarily data-driven/dynamic site, I may set these headers at the project level, but in a /static directory (which contains my .js, .css, images), add another web.config which includes the appropriate </clear>
directive, and perhaps set a far-future-expires header instead.