Lua

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 chilkat = require("chilkat")

local rest = chilkat.Rest.new()
local bTls = true
local bAutoReconnect = true
local success = rest:connect("example.com", 443, bTls, bAutoReconnect)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
-- interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
local username = "myUsername"
local password = "myPassword"
success = rest:set_auth_basic(username, password)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

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

print("Authentication cleared.")