We are currently reviewing the settings for **BadBehaviour 3.0** and the associated admin panel module.
* https://github.com/Bad-Behaviour/badbehaviour
So if you are blocked or the website is unavailable, **please try again later**.
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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ USER LAYER │
│ Preset choice + 3-5 visible toggles │
│ The only thing 99% of users ever touch │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ FALSE POSITIVE GUARDRAILS ◄── biggest concern │
│ Conservative defaults │
│ Negative caches │
│ Soft timeouts │
│ "When in doubt, allow" philosophy │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ INTERNAL DNS INFRASTRUCTURE │
│ Sync verification │
│ Async range feeds │
│ On-demand refresh │
│ Snapshot fallback │
│ Hidden behind presets, never seen by users │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────────┐
request ───▶ │ BadBehaviour │
│ ::run() │
└────────┬────────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ RequestPackage │ ← parse $_SERVER + headers
│ (immutable) │
└────────┬────────┘
│
▼
┌────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Detection pipeline (ordered) │
│ │
│ 1. Whitelist check → ALLOW │
│ 2. Custom rules → ? │
│ 3. BotDetector → ? │ ← UA + IP + DNS
│ 4. HeadRequestDetector → ? │ verification
│ 5. ClientHintsDetector → ? │ (~100 bot
│ 6. BlacklistDetector → ? │ categories)
│ 7. AssetScrapingDetector → ? │
│ 8. BehavioralDetector → ? │
│ 9. AgenticBehaviorDetector→ ? │
│ 10. RateLimitDetector → ? │
│ 11. DnsblDetector → ? │
│ 12. FingerprintDetector → ? │
└────────────┬───────────────────────┘
│
▼
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ maybe_demote_to_monitored()│ ← monitor-only mode converts
└────────────┬───────────────┘ "would have blocked" to
│ "monitored" (no 403 served)
▼
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ log_request() │ ← writes to bad_behaviour
│ + return Result │ with enforcement_action
└────────────────────────────┘ (enforced|monitored|allowed)
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We are working to reduce false positives. We welcome your feedback.
Technical anomaly in URL (**valid block**)
* https://wackowiki.org//doc/Org/Articles/5TypesOpenSourceProjects?categoryid=2826672%252525253Fcategoryid%3Fcategoryid=2826672%252525253Fcategoryid