What mime type should WOFF fonts be served as?
I am serving truetype (ttf) fonts as font/truetype and opentype (otf) as font/opentype, but I cannot find the correct format for WOFF fonts.
I have tried font/woff, font/webopen, and font/webopentype, but Chrome still complains:
"Resource interpreted as font but transferred with MIME type application/octet-stream."
Anybody know?
This is a helpful list of mimetypes
I know this post is kind of old but after spending many hours on trying to make the fonts work on my nginx local machine and trying a tons of solutions i finally got the one that worked for me like a charm.
location ~* \.(eot|otf|ttf|woff|woff2)$ {
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
}
Inside the parenthesis you can put the extensions of your fonts or generally the files that you want to load. For example i used it for fonts and for images(png,jpg etc etc) as well so don't get confused that this solution applies only for fonts.
Just put it into your nginx config file, restart and i hope it works also for you!
Maybe this will help someone. I saw that on IIS 7 .ttf is already a known mime-type. It's configured as:
application/octet-stream
So I just added that for all the CSS font types (.oet, .svg, .ttf, .woff) and IIS started serving them. Chrome dev tools also do not complain about re-interpreting the type.
Cheers, Michael