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" "-" _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx