putyourlightson/craft-clear-browser-cache

Clears the local browser cache once per unique visitor.

1.0.0 2024-08-29 05:25 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.0
• craftcms/cms: ^4.0|^5.0

Requires (Dev)

• craftcms/ecs: dev-main
• craftcms/phpstan: dev-main
• putyourlightson/craft-blitz: ^5.0

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README

This module clears the local browser cache once per unique visitor. It does so by send a Clear-Site-Data response header with a value of "cache", and sets a cookie called BrowserCacheCleared to prevent the header from being sent again.

To learn the reason for its existence, read this article →

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 4.0.0 or later, or 5.0.0 or later.

Installation

Install this module via composer.

composer require putyourlightson/craft-clear-browser-cache

Once installed, the module self-bootstraps and does not require any further setup.

Configuration

The module is configured to run only until a cut-off date, which is set to 2026-01-01 by default. After that date, the module will have no effect. This value can be overridden by setting a CLEAR_BROWSER_CACHE_CUTOFF_DATE environment variable in your .env file.

CLEAR_BROWSER_CACHE_CUTOFF_DATE=2025-09-01

Created by PutYourLightsOn.