Trying to understand netlify ipx used for next image optimisation

[shyam-lawlytics]

To load images next js use ipx route here https://example.com/_ipx/w_1080,q_75/%2Fimages%2Ffonts%2Ftype.png?url=%2Fimages%2Ffonts%2Ftype.png&w=1080&q=75

I have routed my app through Cloudflare and the bot management blocks these image requests with a bot score of 1 and treats them as Automated requests. All of my images fail with 403 requests due to this.

[hrishikesh]

What exactly is the question here? Sounds like something you need to allow on Cloudflare’s end (or disable it completely):

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