Cache cannot be disabled with cli #188

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1. cphoover

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   [cloudhead#188] Allow disabling of cache

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2. cphoover commented on Apr 27, 2017

   

   cphoover

   on Apr 27, 2017

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   Fixed by PR: #189
3. cphoover

   added 2 commits that reference this issue on Apr 27, 2017

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4. jakubwolny commented on Nov 29, 2017

   

   jakubwolny

   on Nov 29, 2017

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   Any updates here? can this PR be merged? if not, can you please give us a hint how to disable cache in CLI mode? The best I got so far was:
   static -H '{"Cache-Control": "no-cache, must-revalidate"}'

   then as a result I had 2 headers in the response:

   Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
   cache-control: max-age=3600
   

   which is a bit confusing

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5. elliotrodriguez commented on Dec 2, 2017

   

   elliotrodriguez

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   seconded - can we get the PR merged?
6. klebba commented on Jan 3, 2018

   

   klebba

   on Jan 3, 2018

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   The programmatic cache option is weird too:

   const st = require('node-static');
   const fileServer = new st.Server(path, {
     cache: 0,
     headers: {
       'Cache-Control': 'no-cache, must-revalidate',
     },
   });

   Results in dual cache-control headers as well, like:

   cache-control: max-age=0
   Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
   

   While the CLI seems to interpret static -c 0 as a falsy value, and falls back to the default, resulting in:

   cache-control: max-age=3600
   
7. brettz9 commented on Oct 15, 2025

   

   brettz9

   on Oct 15, 2025

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   Setting -c or cache to false or 0 works in master, so closing (though feel free to comment further as needed).
8. brettz9

   closed this as completedon Oct 15, 2025