From 41e622e17056a4acc7f14df9535aa34938c6c75d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:43:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #5284 -- Documented never_cache decorator. Thanks, xbito git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@6308 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/cache.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/cache.txt b/docs/cache.txt index 92b5c1b43d2..8ba03839097 100644 --- a/docs/cache.txt +++ b/docs/cache.txt @@ -524,6 +524,15 @@ the value of the ``CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SETTINGS`` setting. If you use a custom ``max_age`` in a ``cache_control`` decorator, the decorator will take precedence, and the header values will be merged correctly.) +If you want to use headers to disable caching altogether, +``django.views.decorators.never_cache`` is a view decorator that adds +headers to ensure the response won't be cached by browsers or other caches. Example:: + + from django.views.decorators.cache import never_cache + @never_cache + def myview(request): + ... + .. _`Cache-Control spec`: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9 Other optimizations