Requests to /.well-known/apple-app-site-association

Question

I just checked my server logs and found the following weird requests coming in quite a lot. I have iOS 9 Universal Linking implemented, but those requests are running agains

Answer 1

I'm seeing lots of these requests (both with and without the .well-known subdirectory). They come from google-bot, but I suppose other spiders might start looking for them, too, at some point. Since my site doesn't have any overlapping functionality with any iOS (or Android) app, they are a waste of bandwidth. I like @aramisbear's answer to protect my application server (https://stackoverflow.com/a/36185061/467590). But I'm going to try adding them to my robots.txt instead. Since google-bot respects robots.txt (and other bots interested in creating app indexes almost certainly would, too) I would assume that doing this will prevent wasting even my nginx proxy's bandwidth, too.