Using <meta> tags to turn off caching in all browsers?

Question

I read that when you don't have access to the web server's headers you can turn off the cache using: <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-store" />But I also read that this doesn't work in some versions of IE. Are there any set of &lt;meta&gt; tags that will turn off cache in all browsers?

Answer 1

The correct minimum set of headers that works across all mentioned clients (and proxies):

Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate

Pragma: no-cache

Expires: 0

Using HTML Tags:

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

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />

<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0" />