It appears you have made changes to the Bad Behavior core code which make it unreliable and which will have a negative impact on users. Please revert the changes or name your mod by a different name other than Bad Behavior.
I emailed you about this unreliable code on August 13, 2010. If you somehow missed the email (which I doubt, since you replied to it) then there’s also a comment in the disabled code warning about it as well.
My records show a conversation on CloudFlare DNS checking where they had an error in their record where you said “I think you should report this one to CloudFlare. It looks like they missed setting a record on one (or more) of their addresses”.
The CloudFlare code we discussed in August 13, has been disabled for a LONG LONG time in the port.
The core section you added that bypassed Bad Behavior checking if CloudFlare is installed was disabled. If I did not users of CloudFlare in my port will never see a blocked bot. Making the port useless. I use it daily and it works.
When was the last time you actually installed and looked at the SMF port? There were over 6,400 downloads. More users than most other BB ports. Users who have CloudFlare and users who do not report many blocked bots.
Having an approved mod at SMF is no little thing. All code is scrutinized by SMF. They police their mods. Any user can report the mod as unsafe. If something does not work they take action.
I see no email warning and am not happy with this thread. For now, I deleted the SMF port and placed the update on hold. I will revisit options when I have time next week.
That affects not only CloudFlare but all search engine requests. If you use the round trip code, and the host’s DNS resolver breaks, then search engine requests get blocked. This isn’t something most users will notice until several months later, if at all.
Not sure if this is a real issue or a people are frustrated issue but I appreciate having bad behavior block a ton of trouble makers who target my SMF forum. I recently donated a small amount to this website. I hope you can clarify what the issue is and determine if it is a real issue or not. I know I don’t have the skills to do this type of thing myself so I have to rely on other people to do it.
I reviewed the mod, created a new version and asked Suki of the SMF Customization Team to provide a Peer Review of the latest version of the SMF “Bad Behavior mod”: Approx. 40 pages of my SMF code and Approx. 21 pages of core code.
The first time they reviewed the mod they ignored your portion. This time they will review all code.
BTW, an option for either sqlite or flatfile storage would be fantastic, as not everybody has the resources to run a DBMS. I suspect that you will greatly increase your potential usership.
Just thought I should let you know that I’ve been working on porting Bad Behavior to ASP.NET. I’ve put the source code for where I’ve got to so far on Github at https://github.com/jammycakes/badbehavior.net.
At the moment it’s at a fairly experimental/alpha stage of development, but I’m hoping to see it through to a stable release in due course.
If you’ve anything in particular that you think I should be aware of, or any particular requirements, could you let me know please?
Our Forum uses SMF software. Will this Bad Behavior version 2.2.7 work with SMF. We are currently version 2.
Thanks
MtnBear
At the moment there is no Bad Behavior port for SMF, though it shouldn’t be too hard to create one.
That is incorrect. The bad behavior for SMF 1.1.x and 2,0x is here:
J.Miller,
It appears you have made changes to the Bad Behavior core code which make it unreliable and which will have a negative impact on users. Please revert the changes or name your mod by a different name other than Bad Behavior.
Appears? I have no reported issues. Have you tested your theory or are you just making assumptions?
I am not happy that you did not email me any concerns.
I emailed you about this unreliable code on August 13, 2010. If you somehow missed the email (which I doubt, since you replied to it) then there’s also a comment in the disabled code warning about it as well.
My records show a conversation on CloudFlare DNS checking where they had an error in their record where you said “I think you should report this one to CloudFlare. It looks like they missed setting a record on one (or more) of their addresses”.
The CloudFlare code we discussed in August 13, has been disabled for a LONG LONG time in the port.
The core section you added that bypassed Bad Behavior checking if CloudFlare is installed was disabled. If I did not users of CloudFlare in my port will never see a blocked bot. Making the port useless. I use it daily and it works.
When was the last time you actually installed and looked at the SMF port? There were over 6,400 downloads. More users than most other BB ports. Users who have CloudFlare and users who do not report many blocked bots.
Having an approved mod at SMF is no little thing. All code is scrutinized by SMF. They police their mods. Any user can report the mod as unsafe. If something does not work they take action.
I see no email warning and am not happy with this thread. For now, I deleted the SMF port and placed the update on hold. I will revisit options when I have time next week.
That affects not only CloudFlare but all search engine requests. If you use the round trip code, and the host’s DNS resolver breaks, then search engine requests get blocked. This isn’t something most users will notice until several months later, if at all.
I do not use round trip code for Cloudflare!
I am not going to waste any more time guessing. Email me specific information.
Not sure if this is a real issue or a people are frustrated issue but I appreciate having bad behavior block a ton of trouble makers who target my SMF forum. I recently donated a small amount to this website. I hope you can clarify what the issue is and determine if it is a real issue or not. I know I don’t have the skills to do this type of thing myself so I have to rely on other people to do it.
An email was never sent to me.
I reviewed the mod, created a new version and asked Suki of the SMF Customization Team to provide a Peer Review of the latest version of the SMF “Bad Behavior mod”: Approx. 40 pages of my SMF code and Approx. 21 pages of core code.
The first time they reviewed the mod they ignored your portion. This time they will review all code.
Eagerly waiting for the porting guide! Out of curiosity, was this originally authored by Appelbaum (ioerror) himself?
BTW, an option for either sqlite or flatfile storage would be fantastic, as not everybody has the resources to run a DBMS. I suspect that you will greatly increase your potential usership.
Regards
Just thought I should let you know that I’ve been working on porting Bad Behavior to ASP.NET. I’ve put the source code for where I’ve got to so far on Github at https://github.com/jammycakes/badbehavior.net.
At the moment it’s at a fairly experimental/alpha stage of development, but I’m hoping to see it through to a stable release in due course.
If you’ve anything in particular that you think I should be aware of, or any particular requirements, could you let me know please?
Thanks
Peer review complete and the mod passed.
If anyone has any questions or issues please either PM me at SMF or post in the SMF support thread for the mod with any questions and/ or concerns.
If someone likes my code please ask for permission before using it.
Hoping I have found the right place, from what I see there are no installation instructions for the MyBB forum software. Are there any plans for this?
Thanks.
Doesn’t look like it…
Last update May 2011 by someone on MyBB: http://mods.mybb.com/view/bad-behavior