Visual FoxPro

Clear REST Authentication Settings

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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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loRest
LOCAL lnBTls
LOCAL lnBAutoReconnect
LOCAL lcUsername
LOCAL lcPassword

lnSuccess = 0

loRest = CreateObject('Chilkat.Rest')
lnBTls = 1
lnBAutoReconnect = 1
lnSuccess = loRest.Connect("example.com",443,lnBTls,lnBAutoReconnect)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
*  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
lcUsername = "myUsername"
lcPassword = "myPassword"
lnSuccess = loRest.SetAuthBasic(lcUsername,lcPassword)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
ENDIF

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

? "Authentication cleared."

RELEASE loRest