diff --git a/radicale/app/base.py b/radicale/app/base.py
index e9693d25..55e8e191 100644
--- a/radicale/app/base.py
+++ b/radicale/app/base.py
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ class ApplicationBase:
         self._rights = rights.load(configuration)
         self._web = web.load(configuration)
         self._encoding = configuration.get("encoding", "request")
+        self._log_bad_put_request_content = configuration.get("logging", "bad_put_request_content")
         self._hook = hook.load(configuration)
 
     def _read_xml_request_body(self, environ: types.WSGIEnviron
diff --git a/radicale/app/put.py b/radicale/app/put.py
index 1666bd29..d013c5d5 100644
--- a/radicale/app/put.py
+++ b/radicale/app/put.py
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ class ApplicationPartPut(ApplicationBase):
         except Exception as e:
             logger.warning(
                 "Bad PUT request on %r (read_components): %s", path, e, exc_info=True)
-            if self._bad_put_request_content:
+            if self._log_bad_put_request_content:
                 logger.warning("Bad PUT request content of %r:\n%s", path, content)
             return httputils.BAD_REQUEST
         (prepared_items, prepared_tag, prepared_write_whole_collection,