title: Using @font-face slows load time. Can I force the client to cache the font?
body: <p><strong>Update:</strong>
  Looks like the header request information is the culprit. How would I change the max-age property of the request header? TIA.</p>
  
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  <p>Hi, I'm using @font-face on a website and i'm experiencing delayed loading of the text (presumably due to the loading of the font every page). I understand the client has to download the font once to display properly, but every page?</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way I can force the browser to cache that file? Or is there another alternative to speed up the font's loading time? (Is this a question more appropriate to post on <a href="https://serverfault.com/">Server Fault</a>?)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance. Worst case, I'll live with the delay, so I don't need any "take off @font-face" answers... ;)</p>
  
  <p><strong>Additional Information:</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I've tested this in both Safari (4) and Firefox (3.5RC1) on both Mac and Windows (XP and 7)</li>
  <li>All the browsers I've tested on are currently set up to allow caching (it's on by default)</li>
  <li>The URL is <strong><em>not</em></strong> dynamic, it's simply "/fonts/font.otf"</li>
  <li>The font URL is correct, as the page loads the font and displays it correctly, albeit slower then normal</li>
  <li><p>Request Header :</p>
  
  <p>Cache-Control:max-age=0<br>
  If-Modified-Since:Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:46:28 GMT<br>
  If-None-Match:W/"484d9f2-a5ac-46d10ff2ebcc0"<br>
  Referer:<a href="http://testurl.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://testurl.com/</a><br>
  User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.15</p></li>
  <li><p>Response headers:</p>
  
  <p>Connection:Keep-Alive<br>
  Date:Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:21:31 GMT<br>
  Etag:"484d9f2-a5ac-46d10ff2ebcc0"<br>
  Keep-Alive:timeout=10, max=29<br>
  Server:Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635</p></li>
  </ul>