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title: Defining Request Criteria
description: Define which operation requests a PingDirectoryProxy client connection policy allows or rejects using the required and prohibited operation request criteria properties.
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# Defining Request Criteria

The client connection policy provides several properties that allow you to define the kinds of requests that it can issue.

* `required-operation-request-criteria`

  This property causes the server to reject any requests that do not match the referenced request criteria.

* `prohibited-operation-request-criteria`

  This property causes the server to reject any request that matches the referenced request criteria.