Visual FoxPro

Remove a Request Header from a REST Request

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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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loRest
LOCAL lnBTls
LOCAL lnBAutoReconnect
LOCAL lcResponseText

lnSuccess = 0

loRest = CreateObject('Chilkat.Rest')

*  Connect to the REST server.  The 3rd argument enables TLS (use 1 for HTTPS on port 443),
*  and the 4th enables automatic reconnection if the connection is dropped between requests.
lnBTls = 1
lnBAutoReconnect = 1
lnSuccess = loRest.Connect("example.com",443,lnBTls,lnBAutoReconnect)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
ENDIF

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

*  Remove a previously added request header by name.
loRest.RemoveHeader("X-Custom-Header")

lcResponseText = loRest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/data")
IF (loRest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcResponseText

RELEASE loRest