Spring MVC: Designing Real-World Web Applications

Cache control

Cache control is a set of HTTP headers sent by the server to control how the user's browser is allowed to cache resources.

In the previous chapter, we have seen that Spring Security automatically disables caching for secured resources.

If we want to benefit from cache control, we must first disable that feature:

security.headers.cache=false

# Cache resources for 3 days
spring.resources.cache-period=259200

Now, launch the application, go to the main page, and check the Chrome developer console. You will see that our JavaScript files are Gzipped and cached, as marked in the following screenshot:

If you want more control over your cache, you ...