.htaccess for fonts

[funderburkjim]

In working with some new codings of Sanskrit Dictionary displays, an experiment was made of running an html application
on local machine with a non-xampp server (namely python -m http.server 8085).
In displaying a dictionary entry with Devanagari output, the 'siddhanta.ttf' network font was specified via the css font-face:

@font-face { 
 src: url(http://localhost/cologne/csl-apidev/fonts/siddhanta.ttf),
      url(https://sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/csl-apidev/fonts/siddhanta.ttf );

This first resulted in a CORS error, which blocked loading of the application.

This stackoverflow article
showed a solution: put a .htaccess file in the fonts folder in csl-apidev, containing

<FilesMatch "\.(eot|ttf|otf|woff)$">
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
</FilesMatch>

I did this, and the original problem went away and the siddhanta font was used as expected.

[gasyoun]

Great, actually for Latin text not all dictionaries have a custom font as well but they sure better would.