Curl command without using cache

Question

Is there a way to tell curl command not to use server s side cache  e g  I have this curl command    curl -v www example com  how can I ask curl to send a fresh request to not use the cache   Note  I am looking for an executable command in the terminal

User · Accepted Answer

I know this is an older question  but I wanted to post an answer for users with the same question   curl -H  Cache-Control  no-cache  http   www example com   This curl command servers in its header request to return non-cached data from the web server

User · Answer

The -H  Cache-Control  no-cache  argument is not guaranteed to work because the remote server or any proxy layers in between can ignore it  If it doesn t work  you can do it the old-fashioned way  by adding a unique querystring parameter  Usually  the servers proxies will think it s a unique URL and not use the cache   curl  http   www example com foo123    You have to use a different querystring value every time  though  Otherwise  the server proxies will match the cache again  To automatically generate a different querystring parameter every time  you can use date   s  which will return the seconds since epoch   curl  http   www example com   date   s

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