Issue

• Autorefresh causes performance issue.
• JENKINS-19828.
• Static images get loaded when page autorefresh enabled.

Environment

• Jenkins
• CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise

Resolution

There is currently no way to disable the autorefresh functionality in Jenkins, however there are other ways to fix caching issues:

• Install Config AutoRefresh Plugin, and configure the auto refresh time to a large number.
• If you are using a container like tomcat you can re-write the header to set the autorefresh cookie to false:

Header edit Set-Cookie "hudson\_auto\_refresh=true" "hudson\_auto\_refresh=false"
RewriteCond %\{QUERY\_STRING\} ^(.+?&|)auto\_refresh=true(?:&(.\*)|)$ \[NC\]
RewriteRule ^ JENKINS\_URL%\{REQUEST\_URI\}?%1%2 \[R=301,L\]

• Install the CloudBees Request Filter Plugin and add a new rule preventing someone from going to the autorefresh url: .*/.*norefresh=true.*