Right way to have ASP.NET / IIS NOT cache PDF files

Question

I have the following scenario, and I wanted suggestions on what is the best way to handle this. My web app (ASP.NET 2.0 / IIS 6) generates PDF files, and I have a results pa

Answer 1

I just had a similar issue. I have my page allows users to input data and generate new a pdf file Save clicked. The new pdf file overwrites the old one. In IE8, when user click the pdf link after the Save, the old pdf will always showed (user need to clear the cache to display the new one). After hours of searching, I found that in IIS6, go to 'Output Caching', add a new cache rule with file extension '.aspx', tick both 'User-mode caching' and 'Kernel-mode caching' then under both options, select 'Prevent all caching'. This is working for me!