title: What is the proper way to tell the browser not to cache?
body: <p>I have a web page that always needs to stay current. I do not want the browser to cache it.  To that end, this meta tag is embedded with the page:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta name="Expires" content="Tue, 01 Jun 1999 19:58:02 GMT"&gt; 
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  <p>However, some browsers seem to ignore it.  Chrome is particularly bad at it, though other browsers tend to do the same thing.  </p>
  
  <p>When I pick the page from the bookmarks bar, most of the time, it doesn't even hit the server, just loads it from cache.  If I then press F5, it does go to the server and fetch a new copy.</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something simple?  I thought the expires meta tag is the way it's done.</p>
  
  <p>This is happening on an IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000.</p>
  
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  <p>Bottom line: looks like meta tags inside the HTML code pretty much do nothing.  However, setting the expires tags within the HTTP does the trick nicely.</p>