616867 - @font-face font not requested when http status code is 301

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Merike Sell (:merike)]

I'm in the middle of switching domains and my old domain is redirected to new domain. CSS on new domain is referencing font on old domain using absolute url because I haven't yet updated style rules. Investigating with Firebug shows that Firefox requests the font from old domain and receives 301 with valid font address on new domain. However no request is sent to retrieve it and thus font isn't loaded at all. Images redirected the same way are requested properly from new domain.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Font loads are subject to CORS (similar to XHR, basically), and in particular cross-domain redirects are not allowed in this context, last I checked.

Comment 2

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Cross-origin redirects are allowed. You just have to ensure that you send the appropriate headers. I.e. add a

access-control-allow-origin: *

(or whatever origin you want to allow)

if at any point the redirect chain contains a cross-origin domain.

Comment 3

[Merike Sell (:merike)]

When sending extra header with redirect reply, Firefox indeed requests the font again from new url.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

OK, sounds like things are working as they should.  ;)