Prevent caching of pages in Internet Explorer 8

Question

On my page in IE8, I have got some text which gets changed through an admin panel. For example: if the page contains the text \'hello world\', after 5 minutes the text could

Answer 1

When you request the page by POST method instead of GET, you can be pretty sure it will be never cached. User1419007's answer is also correct.

Answer 2

The best way to disable cache is to use a variable with random unique value in your URLs.

For example if your page's URL is:

www.abc.com/hello.php

make it like:

www.abc.com/hello.php?randomVar=1SH232X-182N19-1929SK

You can use the current timestamp as the value of randomVar. This way, the page will not be cached.

Answer 3

You can force Internet Explorer not to cache your page using the following headers:

Expires: -1
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0

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