NodeJS/express: Cache and 304 status code

Question

When I reload a website made with express, I get a blank page with Safari (not with Chrome) because the NodeJS server sends me a 304 status code.

How to solve this?

Of course, this could also be just a problem of Safari, but actually it works on all other websites fine, so it has to be a problem on my NodeJS server, too.

To generate the pages, I'm using Jade with res.render.

Update: It seems like this problem occurs because Safari sends 'cache-control': 'max-age=0' on reload.

Update 2: I now have a workaround, but is there a better solution? Workaround:

app.get('/:language(' + content.languageSelector + ')/:page', function (req, res) {     // Disable caching for content files     res.header("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate");     res.header("Pragma", "no-cache");     res.header("Expires", 0);      // rendering stuff here… } 

Update 3: So the complete code part is currently:

app.get('/:language(' + content.languageSelector + ')/:page', pageHandle);  function pageHandle (req, res) {     var language = req.params.language;     var thisPage = content.getPage(req.params.page, language);      if (thisPage)     {         // Disable caching for content files         res.header("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate");         res.header("Pragma", "no-cache");         res.header("Expires", 0);          res.render(thisPage.file + '_' + language, {             thisPage : thisPage,             language: language,             languages: content.languages,             navigation: content.navigation,             footerNavigation: content.footerNavigation,             currentYear: new Date().getFullYear()         });     }     else     {         error404Handling(req, res);     } } 

Answer 1

Easiest solution:

app.disable('etag'); 

Alternate solution here if you want more control:

http://vlasenko.org/2011/10/12/expressconnect-static-set-last-modified-to-now-to-avoid-304-not-modified/