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There are two ways of configuring Bad Behavior .NET: programmatically or through web.config.

This is the recommended approach for most projects, and the default that you will be offered if you install Bad Behavior .NET through NuGet.

To configure Bad Behavior .NET programmatically, create a class in your web project that implements the IConfigurator interface, and set the values in the Configure method. For example:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using BadBehavior;

namespace MyWebsite
{
    public class BadBehaviorConfigurator : IConfigurator
    {
        public void Configure(BBEngine engine)
        {
            var settings = engine.Settings;
            settings.AllowRemoteLogViewing = false;
            settings.Debug = true;
            settings.OffsiteForms = false;
            settings.Strict = false;
            settings.SupportEmail = "[email protected]";
            settings.ReverseProxy = false;
            settings.ReverseProxyAddresses = null;
            settings.ReverseProxyHeader = "X-Forwarded-For";
            settings.WhitelistIPRanges = new string[0];
            settings.WhitelistUserAgents = new string[0];
            settings.WhitelistUrls = new string[] { "/Contents/", "/Scripts/" };
            settings.Httpbl = false;
            settings.HttpblKey = null;
            settings.HttpblThreatLevel = 25;
            settings.HttpblMaxAge = 30;

            /* This is how to set up logging using SQL Server */

            engine.Logger = new BadBehavior.Logging.SqlServer.SqlServerLogger
                (ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["BadBehavior"].ConnectionString);
        }
    }
}

Note that if you have more than one IConfigurator instance in your solution, which one will be used is undefined.

The configuration options are as follows:

• settings.AllowRemoteLogViewing (bool): If this is set to true, remote users can access the log viewer, /BadBehavior.axd, from any IP address. If it is set to false, they can only access the log viewer on the local machine. If you set this to true, you should also use ASP.NET's <authorization> directives to restrict it to authenticated users only.
• settings.Debug (bool): This setting is used primarily for troubleshooting Bad Behavior .NET. If an unexpected exception occurs when it is validating a request (i.e., a problem other than one of the rules failing), normally it will be suppressed and processing will carry on as normal. In debug mode, however, unexpected error conditions in Bad Behavior .NET will be raised in the normal way, and processing would stop. If you don't understand any of that, just leave it set to false, which is what it should be in production anyway.
• settings.OffsiteForms (bool): set this to true if you want to allow websites other than your own to post back forms to your own site.
• settings.Strict (bool):
• settings.SupportEmail (string):
• settings.ReverseProxy (bool):
• settings.ReverseProxyAddresses (array of string):
• settings.ReverseProxyHeader (string):
• settings.WhitelistIPRanges (array of string):
• settings.WhitelistUserAgents (array of string):
• settings.WhitelistUrls (array of string):
• settings.Httpbl (bool):
• settings.HttpblKey (string):
• settings.HttpblThreatLevel (int):
• settings.HttpblMaxAge (int):

If you are unable to configure your application programmatically (for example, if you are using Bad Behavior .NET with an application to which you do not have the source code), you can, as an alternative, configure it through web.config. To do this, you will need to add a new configuration section:

<configuration>
    <configSections>
        <section name="badBehavior" type="BadBehavior.Configuration.BadBehaviorConfigurationSection, BadBehavior" />
    </configSections>

    <badBehavior allowRemoteLogViewing="false"
                 offsiteForms="false"
                 strict="false"
                 supportEmail="[email protected]"
                 reverseProxy="false"
                 reverseProxyHeader="X-Forwarded-For"
                 debug="false">
        <httpbl key="" threatLevel="25" maxAge="30" />
        <reverseProxyAddresses>
            <add value="127.0.0.0/8" />
        </reverseProxyAddresses>
        <whitelist>
            <ipRanges>
                <!-- Digg -->
                <add value="64.191.203.0/24" />
                <add value="208.67.217.130" />
                <!-- RFC 1918 addresses -->
                <add value="10.0.0.0/8" />
                <add value="172.16.0.0/12" />
                <add value="192.168.0.0/16" />
            </ipRanges>
            <userAgents>
                <add value="Mozilla/4.0 (It's me, let me in)" />
            </userAgents>
            <urls>
                <add value="/Content/" />
                <add value="/Scripts/" />
            </urls>
        </whitelist>
    </badBehavior>
</configuration>

If you want to use SQL Server logging, simply add a connection string called BadBehavior:

<configuration>
    <connectionStrings>
        <add name="BadBehavior" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"
            connectionString="Server=(local)\sqlexpress;Database=BadBehavior;Integrated Security=True"/>
    </connectionStrings>
</configuration>