How to prevent html5 page from caching?

Question

I converted a plain vanilla HTML page to HMTL5/CSS3 with a responsive layout, and for security reasons (dictated by the security people) the page must never cache.

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Answer 1

I have been struggling with the same issue for quite some time. What works for me - at least so far - in Chrome, FF and IE is doing the following:

1) reference the manifest file From what I understand, this will cache everything that follows in this HTML document, hence a manifest file is needed to prevent this from happening:

2) use a manifest file filename.appcache with the following content which basically says: for all files, do not read from cache but from network server:

CACHE MANIFEST
# 2015-09-25 time 20:33 UTC v 1.01 
NETWORK:
*

3) a third step is required: each time you upload a (partial) update of your website, also change the manifest file by changing the date and time stamp in the comment(#) line. Why? Because if you do not change the manifest file, it will not be read and it will default to step 1 and thus cache and read from cache. The fact that the manifest file is changed, however, enforces the manifest file to be read again, and thus enforces that the "do not read from cache but read from network server" instruction therein, is applied again.