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It isn't clear to me if the CacheMiddleware looks at the headers to determine if it should cache or if functions like patch_cache_control and never_cache are just commands to the browser. This document seems to imply the headers do affect the cache middleware: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/cache/#order-of-middleware-classes

Another possibility is to use custom cache middleware: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10940592/technique-for-subclassing-django-updatecachemiddleware-and-fetchfromcachemiddlew