Prevent Corona from caching my network requests

Question

I couldn't find any information in the documentation that mentions resources caching, but from my tests it seems like Corona caches files which is not what I wanted.

-- if this file has been downloaded before, Corona will be happy to ignore it
-- for me
network.request(some_url, "GET", network_handler, {
    filename = some_file_name,
    baseDirectory = system.CachesDirectory
})

As a web developer, I am used to dealing with browsers' caching shenanigans. Applying the same fix seems to fix the issue:

network.request(string.format("%s?_=%d", some_url, os.time()), "GET", network_handler, {
    filename = some_file_name,
    baseDirectory = system.CachesDirectory
})

This is definitely not optimal but I couldn't find any useful information in the documentation. Caching also seems to only affect downloading files. Normal network requests are not affected.

Any ideas on how to disable caching properly?

Answer 1

Credit to ldurniart , it seems that adding

Cache-Control: no-cache

to the header forces the system to disregard the cache, though it ultimately depends on the system to decide.