Font-face not loading in IE8 and IE9 when accessing web via SSL

Question

I\'m using a webfont for my website (made with Spring for an Apache Tomcat 6 server). I\'m including my font in my css file with font-face as:

@font-face{
  font         


        

Answer 1

The practical answer is,using a proxy, to hide to the browser any cache-invalidating headers. Like "cache-control" and pragma: "no-cache" headers returned to the browser.

I used nginx like this, adding the folowing commands the https proxied location:

  proxy_hide_header Cache-Control;
  proxy_hide_header Pragma; 

See here for details with nginx.

Using apache httpd, you'll find the syntax here

Answer 2

I was running into exactly the same problem and finally fixed it today. I noticed a particular web font was working in IE8/9 on one HTTPS domain, but not on another. The server for the domain that didn't work was sending the following HTTP response header for the .eot request:

Cache-Control: no-cache

When this header was removed the fonts were working in IE8/9 again. I hope this helps you as well.