Font Awesome fonts show up as boxes on IE8

Question

So I am using Font Awesome in a project and in testing I\'m running into issues with IE8.

On Windows IE9, Chrome and Firefox show the font properly (As does Firefox,

Answer 1

Making Cache control in the response header as private for the font file worked perfectly in IE8 for me. More explanation on this can be found here - where he explains how he solved for PDF files (Can't display PDF from HTTPS in IE 8 (on 64-bit Vista)).

Hope this helps.