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Asked: 2026-05-23T07:53:10+00:00

I know this question has been asked multiple times before, but the solutions posted

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I know this question has been asked multiple times before, but the solutions posted are not working for me.

I have put the following in the <head> tag, to no avail:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">

I also saw some mention about the onunload attribute and the bfcache in browsers, so I added that to the <body> tag, also to no avail.

The response headers from my server contain:

Cache-Control   max-age=0, private, must-revalidate

Would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction here – what am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Answering my own question. As it turns out, setting the following response headers (as opposed to META tags) worked for me:

    Cache-Control private, no-store, max-age=0, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma no-cache
Expires Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT

    If you’re working in Rails like I am, you can do this easily by putting the following in an ApplicationController before_filter callback:

    response.headers["Cache-Control"] = "private, no-store, max-age=0, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"
response.headers["Pragma"] = "no-cache"
response.headers["Expires"] = "Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT"
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