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

Question

I have a warning in Google for my font-face:

Resource interpreted as Font but transferred with MIME type application/octet-stream: ".../Content/Fonts/iconFont.ttf".

It works even if I have this warning but I prefer avoid this warning.

Here is my declaration:

@font-face {   font-family: 'iconFont';      src: url('../Fonts/iconFont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),       url('../Fonts/iconFont.svg#iconFont') format('image/svg+xml'),       url('../Fonts/iconFont.woff') format('font/x-woff'),       url('../Fonts/iconFont.ttf') format('truetype');   font-weight: normal;   font-style: normal; } 

I already search on other posts but no luck so far.

Please note that my server is IIS from Microsoft.

Any idea how can I avoid this warning?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to add the following types to an .htaccess/IIS:

AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot AddType font/ttf .ttf AddType font/otf .otf AddType application/font-woff .woff   

Updated .woff type from:

AddType application/x-font-woff .woff 

(Thanks to @renadeen in comments below for pointing this out.)

Check out my answer to a similar question here: Font Face not loaded

Taken from here: font-face problem in chrome.

Answer 2

Thanks for the above answer @97ldave, you can add these types to your IIS webServer configuration section if you'd rather not add them directly to your MIME types in your IIS setup. The following shows an example of adding just the .woff type that was missing from our configuration. This fixed the issues with the fonts not appearing in the latest version of Safari (6.0.3) on my iMac.

<system.webServer> <staticContent>   <remove fileExtension=".woff" />   <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/x-font-woff" /> </staticContent> </system.webServer> 

Thanks to Jon Samwell (my colleague) for finding this out.