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

Here is a rewrite of @Meilo's answer for Django 1.10+:

from django.utils.cache import add_never_cache_headers

class DisableClientCachingMiddleware(object):
    def __init__(self, get_response):
        self.get_response = get_response

    def __call__(self, request):
        response = self.get_response(request)
        add_never_cache_headers(response)
        return response