On Jun 25, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > So browsers that send incorrect headers would fail to work with > linked fonts in this scenario? That seems like something browser > vendors might be willing to fix. > > The big problem is that some firewalls strip Referer headers because > they don't want to reveal URLs of internal pages. For example, > ifhttps://intranet.mozilla.com/Orbital_Mind_Control_Lasers.html > links to http://www.nasa.gov, Mozilla might not want > nasa.govadministrators to see that URL in their Referer logs. So > Referer is not really fixable. So the result would be that the Mozilla intranet would see the NASA pages without NASA's embedded fonts, then right? For a lot of site authors, this might be acceptable, or they might send you a second- choice open license font instead. I wonder if it would be acceptable to the font publishers. It would not be that different from sites that block de-referred browsers from seeing their images.
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