How to add Cache-Control header to static resource in Spring Boot?

As per the documentation, of ResourceHandlerRegistry. It is pretty easy. (I have no code related to it right now.)

In the place where you configure your static resources just add addResourceHandler method, It will return ResourceHandlerRegistration object.

There you can use setCacheControl method. What you have to do is configure and set a CacheControl obejct.

This is since spring 4.2, else you will have to do it like below.

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@ComponentScan("my.packages.here")
public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {


   @Override
    public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
        registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**").setCachePeriod(0);
    }

}

This happens because of Spring Security: it rewrites all cache headers to disable caching totally. So we need to do two things:

1. Disable spring security for static resources
2. Enable static resource cache processing

In current version of Spring Boot we can change this behavior in application.properties config.

Disable spring security for some resources:

# Comma-separated list of paths to exclude from the default secured 
security.ignored=/myAssets/**

Enable sending cache headers for static resources:

# Enable HTML5 application cache manifest rewriting.
spring.resources.chain.html-application-cache=true

# Enable the Spring Resource Handling chain. Disabled by default unless at least one strategy has been enabled.
spring.resources.chain.enabled=true
# Enable the content Version Strategy.
spring.resources.chain.strategy.content.enabled=true 
# Comma-separated list of patterns to apply to the Version Strategy.
spring.resources.chain.strategy.content.paths=/** 

# Locations of static resources.
spring.resources.static-locations=classpath:/META-INF/resources/,classpath:/resources/,classpath:/static/,classpath:/public/

That's all. Now Spring will check if your static files was changed and can send smarter responses (If-Modiffied-Since and others) and rewrite your appcache also.

Also, if there are reasons to not use content-based version for some resources - you can use alternate FixedVersion strategy and set version explicitly in your config:

#Enable the fixed Version Strategy.
spring.resources.chain.strategy.fixed.enabled=false 
# Comma-separated list of patterns to apply to the Version Strategy.
spring.resources.chain.strategy.fixed.paths= 
# Version string to use for the Version Strategy.
spring.resources.chain.strategy.fixed.version= 

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