add response headers to prevent caching

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/srv/cmd/mediocre-blog/main.go b/srv/cmd/mediocre-blog/main.go
index 5233a2c..66c17ee 100644
--- a/srv/cmd/mediocre-blog/main.go
+++ b/srv/cmd/mediocre-blog/main.go
@@ -172,6 +172,12 @@ func main() {
 
 	apiHandler := logMiddleware(logger.WithNamespace("api"), apiMux)
 	apiHandler = annotateMiddleware(apiHandler)
+	apiHandler = addResponseHeaders(map[string]string{
+		"Cache-Control": "no-store, max-age=0",
+		"Pragma":        "no-cache",
+		"Expires":       "0",
+	}, apiHandler)
+
 	mux.Handle("/api/", http.StripPrefix("/api", apiHandler))
 
 	// run
diff --git a/srv/cmd/mediocre-blog/middleware.go b/srv/cmd/mediocre-blog/middleware.go
index 4ffba2c..165f82f 100644
--- a/srv/cmd/mediocre-blog/middleware.go
+++ b/srv/cmd/mediocre-blog/middleware.go
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ import (
 	"github.com/mediocregopher/mediocre-go-lib/v2/mlog"
 )
 
+func addResponseHeaders(headers map[string]string, h http.Handler) http.Handler {
+	return http.HandlerFunc(func(rw http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		for k, v := range headers {
+			rw.Header().Set(k, v)
+		}
+		h.ServeHTTP(rw, r)
+	})
+}
+
 func annotateMiddleware(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
 	return http.HandlerFunc(func(rw http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {