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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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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    var rest = new chilkat.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.
    var bTls = true;
    var bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(rest.LastErrorText);
        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");

    var responseText = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/data");
    if (rest.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
        console.log(rest.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    console.log(responseText);

}

chilkatExample();