Disabling Client Side (browser) caching & impact on AJAX

Question

Hi So I guess that I have 2 questions.... 1. I have been asked whether client side caching has been disabled in my asp.net webforms (which it hasn't) - what is the best way of going about this? 2. Some of my webforms use AJAX - would disabling caching have any impact on AJAX? I am using .net framework 2. Many Thanks Gary

Gohil Jayendrasinh · Answer

if you want to store some information in memorry then use caching. http://weblogs.asp.net/mikaelsoderstrom/archive/2010/07/06/use-caching-in-asp-net-web-pages.aspx

Gary King · Answer

Thanks for the response Lion but I am still very unsure about caching.... The webforms contain confidential financial information and I have been asked to ensure that no data is cached on the users' browser. So I guess that I need to completely disable caching but I am not sure of.... 1. How to ensure there is no caching 2. If there is no caching then would this affect the webform performance and/or functionality? (We dont use jQuery AJAX)

Gohil Jayendrasinh · Answer

For Page lavel caching 1. in web config this will help you http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/06bh14hk(v=vs.71).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178606.aspx 2. if you use jQuery ajax than $.ajax({ url: test.html context: document.body cache:false //it will force requested pages not to be cached by the browser. success: function(){ $(this).addClass(done); } });