Google Chrome gives warning Resource interpreted as Font but transferred with MIME type application/octet-stream:

Question

I keep getting this warning

Resource interpreted as Font but transferred with MIME type application/octet-stream: \"http://127.0.0.1:8080/assets/font/fontawesome-webfont

Answer 1

If you're using a Rack-based app, you can amend the Rack::Mime::MIME_TYPES hash in your config.ru:

# Additional mime types
Rack::Mime::MIME_TYPES.merge!({
  ".eot" => "application/vnd.ms-fontobject",
  ".ttf" => "font/ttf",
  ".otf" => "font/otf",
  ".woff" => "application/x-font-woff"
})