I'm glad you found the solution, but being a Google crawler, it would
likely respect a robots.txt file with Disallow: images/*, which if it
worked would allow you to remove an if clause from being evaluated on every
page load.

You may have already tried it. But i have a feeling you'll start to find
more that are after this directory. When i was at an image heavy start up,
we had every one imaginable.

Best,
Jeff

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:40 PM, lists@lazygranch.com <lists@lazygranch.com>
wrote:

> I'm sending 403 responses now, so I screwed up by mistaking the fields
> in the logs. I'm going back to lurking mode again with my tail
> shamefully between my legs.
>
> This code in the image location section will block the google app:
> ------------
> if ($http_user_agent ~* (com.google.GoogleMobile)) {
> return 403;
> }
> ---------
>
> 403 107.2.5.162 - - [21/Jun/2017:07:21:08 +0000] "GET /images/photo.jpg
> HTTP/1.1" 140 "-" "com.google.GoogleMobile/28.0.0 iPad/10.3.2 hw/iPad6_7"
> "-"
>
>
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