Fighting client-side caching in Django

Question

I\'m using the render_to_response shortcut and don\'t want to craft a specific Response object to add additional headers to prevent client-side caching.

I\'d like to

Answer 1

This approach (slight modification of L. De Leo's solution) with a custom middleware has worked well for me as a site wide solution:

from django.utils.cache import add_never_cache_headers

class DisableClientSideCachingMiddleware(object):
    def process_response(self, request, response):
        add_never_cache_headers(response)
        return response

This makes use of add_never_cache_headers.

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If you want to combine this with UpdateCacheMiddleware and FetchFromCacheMiddleware, to enable server-side caching while disabling client-side caching, you need to add DisableClientSideCachingMiddleware before everything else, like this:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'custom.middleware.DisableClientSideCachingMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware',
    # ... all other middleware ...
    'django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware',
)