diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index e2b1d66a6a..5689ae0d84 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -431,6 +431,8 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
 
     HADOOP-8999. SASL negotiation is flawed (daryn)
 
+    HADOOP-6607. Add different variants of non caching HTTP headers. (tucu)
+
 Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java
index 683ccf4125..ea768ab75a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java
@@ -25,7 +25,12 @@
 import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
-import java.util.*;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Enumeration;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLServerSocketFactory;
 import javax.servlet.Filter;
@@ -960,7 +965,7 @@ public RequestQuoter(HttpServletRequest rawRequest) {
       @Override
       public Enumeration<String> getParameterNames() {
         return new Enumeration<String>() {
-          private Enumeration<String> rawIterator = 
+          private Enumeration<String> rawIterator =
             rawRequest.getParameterNames();
           @Override
           public boolean hasMoreElements() {
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/NoCacheFilter.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/NoCacheFilter.java
index 6c3397f3c9..54a101b8b8 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/NoCacheFilter.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/NoCacheFilter.java
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res,
     throws IOException, ServletException {
     HttpServletResponse httpRes = (HttpServletResponse) res;
     httpRes.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
+    long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
+    httpRes.addDateHeader("Expires", now);
+    httpRes.addDateHeader("Date", now);
+    httpRes.addHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
     chain.doFilter(req, res);
   }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpServer.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpServer.java
index e78fc4b53f..acbf8918bf 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpServer.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpServer.java
@@ -546,6 +546,10 @@ public void testNoCacheHeader() throws Exception {
     HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
     assertEquals(HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK, conn.getResponseCode());
     assertEquals("no-cache", conn.getHeaderField("Cache-Control"));
+    assertEquals("no-cache", conn.getHeaderField("Pragma"));
+    assertNotNull(conn.getHeaderField("Expires"));
+    assertNotNull(conn.getHeaderField("Date"));
+    assertEquals(conn.getHeaderField("Expires"), conn.getHeaderField("Date"));
   }
 
 }