Add noHttpCache to hugo server

Fixes #3897

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/commands/server.go b/commands/server.go
index 89d5c239e..b6983c704 100644
--- a/commands/server.go
+++ b/commands/server.go
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ var (
 	serverInterface   string
 	serverPort        int
 	serverWatch       bool
+	noHttpCache       bool
 )
 
 var serverCmd = &cobra.Command{
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ func init() {
 	serverCmd.Flags().IntVarP(&serverPort, "port", "p", 1313, "port on which the server will listen")
 	serverCmd.Flags().StringVarP(&serverInterface, "bind", "", "127.0.0.1", "interface to which the server will bind")
 	serverCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&serverWatch, "watch", "w", true, "watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed")
+	serverCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&noHttpCache, "noHttpCache", false, "prevent HTTP caching")
 	serverCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&serverAppend, "appendPort", "", true, "append port to baseURL")
 	serverCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&disableLiveReload, "disableLiveReload", false, "watch without enabling live browser reload on rebuild")
 	serverCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&navigateToChanged, "navigateToChanged", false, "navigate to changed content file on live browser reload")
@@ -205,7 +207,17 @@ func (c *commandeer) serve(port int) {
 
 	httpFs := afero.NewHttpFs(c.Fs.Destination)
 	fs := filesOnlyFs{httpFs.Dir(c.PathSpec().AbsPathify(c.Cfg.GetString("publishDir")))}
-	fileserver := http.FileServer(fs)
+	decorate := func(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
+		return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+			if noHttpCache {
+				w.Header().Set("Cache-Control", " no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0")
+				w.Header().Set("Pragma", "no-cache")
+			}
+			h.ServeHTTP(w, r)
+		})
+	}
+
+	fileserver := decorate(http.FileServer(fs))
 
 	// We're only interested in the path
 	u, err := url.Parse(c.Cfg.GetString("baseURL"))