Clear REST Authentication Settings

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Demonstrates Rest.ClearAuth, which removes any authentication providers and credentials previously configured through the SetAuth* methods.

Background. Clearing authentication is useful when reusing a Rest object for a request that must be sent without credentials, or before switching to a different authentication method.

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bool success = false;

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.Rest();
bool bTls = true;
bool bAutoReconnect = true;
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
//  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
string username = "myUsername";
string password = "myPassword";
success = rest.SetAuthBasic(username,password);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  ClearAuth removes any authentication providers and credentials previously configured through the
//  SetAuth* methods, for example before reusing the object for an unauthenticated request.
rest.ClearAuth();

Debug.WriteLine("Authentication cleared.");