Preventing caching in Grails

Your browser caching pages served from Grails can be quite a nuisance. Defining a preventCache()-method like below, and calling that from your controller method, stops the caching.

private static final String HEADER_PRAGMA = "Pragma";
private static final String HEADER_EXPIRES = "Expires";
private static final String HEADER_CACHE_CONTROL = "Cache-Control";

protected preventCache (response) {
    response.setHeader(HEADER_PRAGMA, "no-cache");
    response.setDateHeader(HEADER_EXPIRES, 1L);
    response.setHeader(HEADER_CACHE_CONTROL, "no-cache");
    response.addHeader(HEADER_CACHE_CONTROL, "no-store");
}

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Tags: cache-control, pragma