VCST-2599: Add NoCacheForApiMiddleware to prevent API response caching (#2877)

Author: OlegoO

src/VirtoCommerce.Platform.Web/Middleware/NoCacheForApiMiddleware.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+using System;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
+
+namespace VirtoCommerce.Platform.Web.Middleware;
+
+public class NoCacheForApiMiddleware
+{
+    private const string NoCache = "no-cache";
+    private const string ExpiresMinusOne = "-1";
+
+    private readonly RequestDelegate _next;
+
+    public NoCacheForApiMiddleware(RequestDelegate next)
+    {
+        _next = next;
+    }
+
+    public Task InvokeAsync(HttpContext context)
+    {
+        // Apply Cache-Control header for API responses
+        if (context.Request.Path.StartsWithSegments("/api", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+        {
+            context.Response.Headers.CacheControl = NoCache;
+            context.Response.Headers.Pragma = NoCache;
+            context.Response.Headers.Expires = ExpiresMinusOne;
+        }
+
+        // Proceed with the request pipeline
+        return _next(context);
+    }
+}

src/VirtoCommerce.Platform.Web/Startup.cs

@@ -597,6 +597,8 @@ public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env, ILogger<
 
             app.UseSecurityHeaders();
 
+            app.UseMiddleware<NoCacheForApiMiddleware>();
+
             //Return all errors as Json response
             app.UseMiddleware<ApiErrorWrappingMiddleware>();