How do you set cache headers in Spring MVC?

Question

In an annotation-based Spring MVC controller, what is the preferred way to set cache headers for a specific path?

Answer 1

You could use a Handler Interceptor and use the postHandle method provided by it:

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/api/org/springframework/web/servlet/HandlerInterceptor.html

postHandle(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Object handler, ModelAndView modelAndView) 

then just add a header as follows in the method:

response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");