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Remove a Request Header from a REST Request

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Demonstrates Rest.RemoveHeader, which removes all request headers matching the supplied name.

Background. Removing a header is useful when reusing a Rest object across requests that require different header sets.

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C++
#include <CkRest.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkRest rest;

    //  Connect to the REST server.  The 3rd argument enables TLS (use true for HTTPS on port 443),
    //  and the 4th enables automatic reconnection if the connection is dropped between requests.
    bool bTls = true;
    bool bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json");
    rest.AddHeader("X-Custom-Header","example-value");

    //  Remove a previously added request header by name.
    rest.RemoveHeader("X-Custom-Header");

    const char *responseText = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/data");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << responseText << "\r\n";
    }