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I use Ubuntu, and Google Chrome mostly. How can I kill these HTTP headers, so that my browser caches this data? I believe it is XHR. Here are the relevant HTTP response headers:

Cache-Control:no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
Pragma:no-cache

I also have Firefox, is there a plugin or something I can use to not respect "no-cache" ? Thanks

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    So you're trying to grab an mp3 from a site that looks like it specifically doesn't want you to do so?
    – Marc B
    Commented Apr 25, 2011 at 16:46
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    Why isn't manually downloading the MP3 file sufficient?
    – Matt Ball
    Commented Apr 25, 2011 at 16:47
  • I don't have a direct link, that's why I want it to save to my disk.
    – Matt
    Commented Apr 25, 2011 at 17:10

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Quite universal way might be to set up a local proxy (like Squid), and setting it either to remove that header, or to ignore it and cache the file for you.

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  • I have installed Squid before.. but I couldn't figure out how to use it. But if you could tell me what to put in the config file [squid.conf?] to ignore [or maybe rewrite] the no-cache header, that would be awesome!
    – Matt
    Commented Apr 26, 2011 at 15:39
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    update. I googled around and I found the correct command to put in /etc/squid/squid.conf: header_access Cache-Control deny all
    – Matt
    Commented Apr 26, 2011 at 16:34
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As @che mentioned a local proxy like Squid do this.

Edit the config in /etc/squid/squid.conf.

You may work headers using request_header_access see http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/request_header_access/.

In this case request_header_access Cache-Control deny all.

Also have a look at the config for refresh_pattern at http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/refresh_pattern/.

You may find some examples at http://archive09.linux.com/feature/153221.

Then you might want something like Proxy SwitchySharp in Chrome to control proxy settings.

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Another lighter solution might be http://www.privoxy.org/

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