How to disable caching in the .NET WebBrowser Control?

Question

I have been googling for hours and trying to figure this out, and I just can't. I have 1 webbrowser control on a form, webbrowser1.

Once I load a page, say google.com, if I use webbrowser1.refresh() or webbrowser1.navigate("google.com"), it's not reloading the page, it has it cached so it's just reloading the cache. This is terribly apparent especially on pages like forums or craigslist.

I need to clear the cache between each refresh (not ideal) or disable caching all together, any ideas? The only things I've found are outdated (vb6 or lower).

Answer 1

Add following meta tag in your pages

<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">

Answer 2

You could try to call webbrowser1.Refresh(WebBrowserRefreshOption.Completely). It should refresh the page and show the latest version, something like ctrl+F5 in IE. See here and here more info.