How can I disable client side and proxy caching in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

What is the proper (browser agnostic) way to disable page caching in ASP.NET MVC?

score 49 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 10 '11 at 10:19

49

Try this:

[OutputCache(NoStore = true, Duration = 0, VaryByParam = "*")]
public ActionResult NonCacheableData()
{
    return View();
}

edited Sep 10 '11 at 10:19

Robert MacLean

answered May 13 '09 at 23:46

dso

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 18 '11 at 20:04

1

If your MVC Action returns JSON instead of HTML such as in an ajax call you cannot use the meta-tag approach.

answered Jul 18 '11 at 20:04

pilavdzice

2 Answers2