Disable client side caching

Question

I've been searching for info on how to disable client side caching on project level. I know I can add the following before an action method:

[System.Web.Mvc.OutputCache(NoStore = true, Duration = 0, VaryByParam = "*")]

I also read something about making profiles for caching, but that would also mean refering to them in several places. I would like a single setting in web.config, or maybe in IIS?

The project I'm working on contains a lot of partial views

Thank you in advance for any advice in this matter.

Answer 1

You can disable browser caching via Web.Config:

<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <httpProtocol>
            <customHeaders>
                <add name="Cache-Control" value="no-cache, no-store" />
                <add name="Pragma" value="no-cache" />
                <add name="Expires" value="-1" />
            </customHeaders>
        </httpProtocol>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Source: http://blog.jamesjones.name/2009/11/how-to-disable-browser-caching-in.html

Edit: added no-store to Cache-Control for Chrome ( http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28035 )

You can set this at the project level or at the subdirectory level to control browser caching as desired. For example, in a primarily data-driven/dynamic site, I may set these headers at the project level, but in a /static directory (which contains my .js, .css, images), add another web.config which includes the appropriate </clear> directive, and perhaps set a far-future-expires header instead.

Answer 2

You could make BaseController and set your cache profile to it. Then make all of your controllers to inherit from this BaseController.

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Update:

Here is what I've :

// Here is my custom OutputCaheAttribute to prevent cache at all.
//Whatever you may put anything you want.
//Of course i don't use it here but i put it to show you how it's going.
[NoCache]
public class BaseController : Controller
{
    protected override ViewResult View(string viewName, string masterName, object model)
    {
        // I do some stuffs here to change MasterPage depending on current culture.
        // Don't care about it i just wanna show you why BaseController is good idea.
    }
}

Then ALL my controllers inherits from this BaseController instead of normal Controller.

Hope this was helpful ;)