diff --git a/include/libwebsockets/lws-client.h b/include/libwebsockets/lws-client.h
index 9d36fcae3..8563371d3 100644
--- a/include/libwebsockets/lws-client.h
+++ b/include/libwebsockets/lws-client.h
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ enum lws_client_connect_ssl_connection_flags {
 	LCCSCF_HTTP_MULTIPART_MIME		= (1 << 10),
 	LCCSCF_HTTP_X_WWW_FORM_URLENCODED	= (1 << 11),
 	LCCSCF_HTTP_NO_FOLLOW_REDIRECT		= (1 << 12),
+	LCCSCF_HTTP_NO_CACHE_CONTROL		= (1 << 13),
 
 	LCCSCF_PIPELINE				= (1 << 16),
 		/**< Serialize / pipeline multiple client connections
diff --git a/lib/roles/http/client/client-http.c b/lib/roles/http/client/client-http.c
index 7dce85000..465b4f0fd 100644
--- a/lib/roles/http/client/client-http.c
+++ b/lib/roles/http/client/client-http.c
@@ -1195,9 +1195,10 @@ lws_generate_client_handshake(struct lws *wsi, char *pkt)
 	p += lws_snprintf(p, lws_ptr_diff_size_t(end, p),
 			  "%s %s HTTP/1.1\x0d\x0a", meth, path);
 
-	p += lws_snprintf(p,  lws_ptr_diff_size_t(end, p),
-			  "Pragma: no-cache\x0d\x0a"
-			  "Cache-Control: no-cache\x0d\x0a");
+	if (!(wsi->flags & LCCSCF_HTTP_NO_CACHE_CONTROL))
+		p += lws_snprintf(p,  lws_ptr_diff_size_t(end, p),
+				  "Pragma: no-cache\x0d\x0a"
+				  "Cache-Control: no-cache\x0d\x0a");
 
 	p += lws_snprintf(p,  lws_ptr_diff_size_t(end, p),
 			  "Host: %s\x0d\x0a",