Re: New work on fonts at W3C

Hi,

You appear to have shown that Akamai is invisible to browsers for the
puposes of @font-face :)

Regards, Dave

On 19 Jun 2009, 7:14 PM, "Aryeh Gregor"
<Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bw3c@gmail.com>>
wrote:

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir<
Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotypeimaging.com> wr...
Akamai is not invisible to the UA.  For instance, if you visit
microsoft.com, images are served from different domains:
i.microsoft.com, i2.microsoft.com, i3.microsoft.com.  These are
actually aliases for Akamai servers:

$ host i.microsoft.com
i.microsoft.com is an alias for i.toggle.www.ms.akadns.net.
i.toggle.www.ms.akadns.net is an alias for i.g.www.ms.akadns.net.
i.g.www.ms.akadns.net is an alias for i.microsoft.com.edgesuite.net.
i.microsoft.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1475.g.akamai.net.
a1475.g.akamai.net has address 72.246.99.40
a1475.g.akamai.net has address 72.246.99.114

Of course, a font that permitted use by *.microsoft.com wouldn't
actually have an issue here, unless the browser follows CNAMEs before
determining whether the restrictions apply (which would make no sense,
AFAICT).  It would be an issue if the site linked directly to
a1475.g.akamai.net instead of using an alias.