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Firefox same-origin policy for fonts
From: paul.szabo () sydney edu au
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:43:47 +1000
One of my users asked me to install MathJax on my server. Reading installation instructions in http://www.mathjax.org/resources/docs/?installation.html#notes-about-shared-installations I came across the following: ... Firefox's same-origin security policy for cross-domain scripting. Firefox's interpretation of the same-origin policy is more strict than most other browsers, and it affects how fonts are loaded with the @font-face CSS directive. ... There is a solution to this, however, if you manage the server ... create a file called .htaccess that contains the following lines: ... Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" That would suggest that this same-origin policy can be defeated by settings on the "evil" server: the policy is not enforced, useless. Did I misunderstand something? (Does not really matter to me, am not planning on using that setting, but am wondering about Firefox workings.) Thanks, Paul Szabo psz () maths usyd edu au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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