Disable GitHub Image Cache for CI Build Badges

Since some time, GitHub caches Images, that are linked in Wiki-Pages or Readme files.
That’s not optimal, when you want to display current states (e.g. the Build Status of your CI Job).

To disable the Caching for a specific Image, you need to configure a proper Caching Header.
So before the Changes, you have:

$ curl -L -I https://consolving.de/jenkins/buildStatus/icon?job=de.consolving.chatlogconverter
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 10:08:44 GMT
    Server: Jetty(8.y.z-SNAPSHOT)
    ETag: /static/e5920a00/success.png
    Expires: Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT
    Content-Type: image/png
    Content-Length: 2339
    Via: 1.1 consolving.de

That means GitHub will cache the Image (for some time), although the Expires Header is set to the past.
In our case, the Jenkins CI is behind an Apache2 Server. So you need to update your Configuration.

  ...
  # Disable Cache for /jenkins/buildStatus
  <LocationMatch "/jenkins/buildStatus/icon*">
    Header set Cache-Control "no-cache"
    Header set Pragma "no-cache"
  </LocationMatch>
  ...

After that, you have now some more Caching Headers set and GitHub won’t Cache your image anymore.

$ curl -L -I https://consolving.de/jenkins/buildStatus/icon?job=de.consolving.chatlogconverter
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 10:13:16 GMT
Server: Jetty(8.y.z-SNAPSHOT)
ETag: /static/e5920a00/success.png
Expires: Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Content-Length: 2339
Via: 1.1 consolving.de
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache