Google web fonts and SSL error

Question

My site is working well with Google webfonts UNTIL the user hits the SSL portion of the site.

At that point, chrome throws the partial encoding error, and my cufon menu losses it's kerning.

I'm including my webfont with this css:

@font-face {
src: local('Lusitana'), url(https://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/lusitana
/v1/tAIvAkRzqMJf8Y4fM1R7PXYhjbSpvc47ee6xR_80Hnw.woff) format('woff');
}

My js console then gives me this error:

[blocked] The page at https://domain.com/ecommerce.php ran insecure content from http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lusitana:regular,700&subset=latin.

Any ideas how I can get google fonts to force SSL?

Answer 1

Have you tried replacing https:// with // in the url? The request should use the correct protocol automatically.

Answer 2

locate this line on your HTML page (or template):

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

and change it to this:

 <link href='//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

This simple change will make your browser call the Google Font page in the applicable mode (HTTP vs HTTPS).

Enjoy!

Answer 3

To load google fonts that will work in non-secure, and SSL mode, try the following in your page header - (and remove what you've got there calling a https:// inside the CSS):

<script type="text/javascript">
  WebFontConfig = { google: { families: [ 'Droid+Serif::latin' ] } };
  (function() {
  var wf = document.createElement('script');
  wf.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https' : 'http') +
    '://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1/webfont.js';
  wf.type = 'text/javascript';
  wf.async = 'true';
  var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
  s.parentNode.insertBefore(wf, s);
})();
</script>

In my example, I'm using Droid Serif font, so swap that with yours.

You can read more on this here.