Perl

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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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();
$bTls = 1;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("example.com",443,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
#  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
$username = "myUsername";
$password = "myPassword";
$success = $rest->SetAuthBasic($username,$password);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  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();

print "Authentication cleared." . "\r\n";