Prevent IE11 caching GET call in Angular 2

Question

I have a rest endpoint that returns a list on a GET call. I also have a POST endpoint to add new items and a DELETE to remove them. This works in Firefox and Chrome, and the

Answer 1

A little late, but I ran into the same problem. For Angular 4.X I wrote a custom Http class to append a random number to the end to prevent caching by IE. It is based on the 2nd link by dimeros (What is httpinterceptor equivalent in angular2?). Warning: not guaranteed to be 100% bug free.

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { Http, Response, XHRBackend, RequestOptions, RequestOptionsArgs, 
URLSearchParams } from '@angular/http';

@Injectable()
export class NoCacheHttp extends Http {
    constructor(backend: XHRBackend, options: RequestOptions) {
        super(backend, options);
    }

    get(url: string, options?: RequestOptionsArgs): Observable {
        //make options object if none.
        if (!options) {
            options = { params: new URLSearchParams() };
        }
        //for each possible params type, append a random number to query to force no browser caching.
        //if string
        if (typeof options.params === 'string') {
            let params = new URLSearchParams(options.params);
            params.set("k", new Date().getTime().toString());
            options.params = params;

        //if URLSearchParams
        } else if (options.params instanceof URLSearchParams) {
            let params = options.params;
            params.set("k", new Date().getTime().toString());

        //if plain object.
        } else {
            let params = options.params;
            params["k"] = new Date().getTime().toString();
        }
        return super.get(url, options);
    }
}