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Testing Font Embedding

Posted By: Michael Petch
Date: Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 7:28 p.m.

In Response To: Testing Font Embedding (eXtreme Gammon)

Howdy Xavier.

This is actually by design. Firefox enforces a strict cross site scripting security model. I am surprised that more browsers don't do the same thing. There is a standard (CORS) or cross origin resource sharing that can be implemented on a webserver hosting remote file, and is honored by most browsers (including Firefox since around version 4).

The trick to getting this going actually lies in modifying the webserver where the Fonts are being hosted (on www.extremegammon.com). You want your server to respond with an HTTP header that allows other websites to embed your content. If you want all sites to have access to the fonts then you can return this HTTP Header on each request:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

I use Apache and I have the headers mod enabled. In my .htaccess file I added this command to the directory hosting your fonts (I copied them to my server as a test):

Access-Control-Allow-Origin *

This will return that header on all resources for that directory. This tells a browser that your server allows any site to request that resource in an embedded (referral) type fashion. As an experiment the output below is using your fonts from my server and I took a snippet of your original post and pointed it to my location. Here is the result (Please note the formatting is munged, but the fonts should be accessed properly even under Firefox):

ñ¡²±²¢ò ðPUFAZA@ @ZKZAFAð ðQVGB[B@ @[L[BGBð ðHWHC\C@ @\CHCHCð ðIDIDID@ @IDIDIDð ðJEJEJE@ @JEJEJEð 'ð @ @ 5 3 ð ðejejej@ @Ðjejejð ðdididi@ @nididið ðwhchch@ @mhchchð ðvgbqlg@ @lgbglgð ðufapkz@ @kfafkfð ó£´³´¤ô	Û is Player 2 score: 7 pip: 140 Unlimited Game Jacoby pip: 134 score: 13 Ð is Player 1
XGID=----BbC-C--CbC--bbAe---b--:0:0:-1:53:7:13:1:0:10
Ð to play 53

1.	Rollout1	8/5 8/3	eq: +0.002
	Player: Opponent: 49.97% (G:7.79% B:0.11%) 50.03% (G:4.16% B:0.20%) Conf.: ± 0.005 (-0.003...+0.007) - [57.8%] Duration: 18 minutes 05 seconds
2.	Rollout2	6/3 6/1	eq: +0.001 (-0.001)
	Player: Opponent: 49.64% (G:8.86% B:0.09%) 50.36% (G:4.75% B:0.24%) Conf.: ± 0.005 (-0.004...+0.006) - [42.2%] Duration: 19 minutes 23 seconds
1 6552 Games rolled with Variance Reduction. Moves: 3-ply, cube decisions: XG Roller 2 6948 Games rolled with Variance Reduction. Moves: 3-ply, cube decisions: XG Roller

www.eXtremeGammon.com>> Version: 2.02.181.pre-release

Messages In This Thread

• Testing Font Embedding
  eXtreme Gammon -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 2:31 p.m.
  • Lots of apestaartjes...
    Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 2:55 p.m.
    • Same details, same result for me *NM*
      Michael Nielsen -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 5:01 p.m.
  • Testing Font Embedding
    Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 3:03 p.m.
  • Testing Font Embedding
    Carlo Melzi -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 3:56 p.m.
  • Testing Font Embedding
    Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 4:58 p.m.
    • Lynx for Completeness
      Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 5:15 p.m.
  • Testing Font Embedding
    eXtreme Gammon -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 6:29 p.m.
    • Testing Font Embedding
      Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 7:37 p.m.
    • Testing Font Embedding
      Stick -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 8:57 p.m.
      • Testing Font Embedding
        Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 9:03 p.m.
  • Testing Font Embedding
    Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 7:28 p.m.
    • Testing Font Embedding
      eXtreme Gammon -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 7:48 p.m.
      • Testing Font Embedding
        Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 7:51 p.m.
      • Testing Font Embedding
        Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 7:54 p.m.
      • Testing Font Embedding
        Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 8:28 p.m.
        • Testing Font Embedding
          tem_sat -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 8:34 p.m.
        • Testing Font Embedding
          Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 8:47 p.m.
          • Win XP, Firefox 10.0.1 *NM*
            Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 9:04 p.m.
            • Win XP, Firefox 10.0.1
              Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 9:27 p.m.
              • Win XP, Firefox 10.0.1
                Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 9:29 p.m.
    • Testing Font Embedding
      Stick -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 8:55 p.m.
      • Testing Font Embedding
        Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 8:57 p.m.
      • same browser and result as stick *NM*
        lenny -- Friday, 17 February 2012, at 5:15 a.m.
        • same browser and result as stick
          lenny -- Friday, 17 February 2012, at 5:16 a.m.
  • Opera doesn't work
    Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 9:40 p.m.
    • Apple iOS v3.1.3 on 3GS doesn't work
      Michael Petch -- Thursday, 16 February 2012, at 9:47 p.m.
  • Testing Font Embedding
    Jake Jacobs -- Friday, 17 February 2012, at 1:30 a.m.
  • Opera 11.11 - doesn't work *NM*
    mtuhtan -- Friday, 17 February 2012, at 7:47 a.m.
    • Opera Mini vs HTC Internet
      mtuhtan -- Friday, 17 February 2012, at 8:59 a.m.
  • Testing Font Embedding
    higonefive -- Friday, 17 February 2012, at 8:48 a.m.