Re: block google app

2017-06-22 Thread lists
Ah but I want Google to look, but just return links to pages, not images. There all those ‎hits that pretend to be Google, because hey, why not. ;-) I block a large number of bots simply by the firewall. I started

Re: block google app

2017-06-22 Thread Peter Booth
U-27, which is a plane recently in the > news. You get a lot of SU-35s. Is this really rocket science? I assume Google > has no trust in image tags. But many images have SU-35 in text, which could > be read using openCV, as is done with openALPR. But I'm rambling. > >

Re: block google app

2017-06-22 Thread lists
The IP addresses from the Google app aren't those of Google. They are ISPs generally. What bugs me is a fair number of these IP addresses never read my web pages. Easy enough to see from access.log. They just look

Re: block google app

2017-06-22 Thread Jeff Dyke
I ended up digging a bit more and found that I believe Richard to be correct in both cases. I would check the ips and see who they belong to, you may just be hurting your mobile users. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Richard Stanway wrote: > That user agent doesn't belong to a Google crawle

Re: block google app

2017-06-22 Thread Richard Stanway
That user agent doesn't belong to a Google crawler - they are end-user requests from the Google App (mobile application). I'm not sure what the motivation is for blocking them but I wouldn't consider it malicious / unwanted traffic. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Jeff Dyke wrote: > I'm glad yo

Re: block google app

2017-06-22 Thread Jeff Dyke
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 fi

Re: block google app

2017-06-21 Thread li...@lazygranch.com
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.GoogleMobi

Re: block google app

2017-06-21 Thread li...@lazygranch.com
gt; Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 6:47 PM > To: nginx@nginx.org > Reply To: nginx@nginx.org > Subject: Re: block google app > > Well what is your log format then? We can't possibly help you if we > don't have the necessary info ;) > > Do you want to block based on ht

Re: block google app

2017-06-20 Thread lists
e   From: Robert Paprocki Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 6:47 PM To: nginx@nginx.org Reply To: nginx@nginx.org Subject: Re: block google app Well what is your log format then? We can't possibly help you if we don't have the necessary info ;) Do you want to block based on http referer? Or us

Re: block google app

2017-06-20 Thread Robert Paprocki
Well what is your log format then? We can't possibly help you if we don't have the necessary info ;) Do you want to block based on http referer? Or user agent string? Or something else entirely? The config snippet you posted indicates you are trying to block by referer. If you want to block a r

Re: block google app

2017-06-20 Thread li...@lazygranch.com
I think the ipad is the useragent. I wiped out that access.log, but here is a fresh one showing a browser (user agent) in the proper field. 200 76.20.227.211 - - [21/Jun/2017:00:48:45 +] "GET /images/photo.jpg HTTP/1.1" 91223 "http://www.mydomain.com/page.html"; "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android

Re: block google app

2017-06-20 Thread Robert Paprocki
Do you mean $http_user_agent? > On Jun 20, 2017, at 17:36, "li...@lazygranch.com" > wrote: > > I would like to block the google app from directly downloading images. > > access.log: > > 200 186.155.157.9 - - [20/Jun/2017:00:35:47 +] "GET /images/photo.jpg > HTTP/1.1" 334052 "-" "com.goo

block google app

2017-06-20 Thread li...@lazygranch.com
I would like to block the google app from directly downloading images. access.log: 200 186.155.157.9 - - [20/Jun/2017:00:35:47 +] "GET /images/photo.jpg HTTP/1.1" 334052 "-" "com.google.GoogleMobile/28.0.0 iPad/9.3.5 hw/iPad2_5" "-" My nginx code in the images location: if ($http_referer