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 strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $rest = Chilkat2::Rest->new;
my $bTls = 1;
my $bAutoReconnect = 1;
my $success = $rest->Connect('example.com', 443, $bTls, $bAutoReconnect);
if (!$success) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText, "\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.
my $username = 'myUsername';
my $password = 'myPassword';
$success = $rest->SetAuthBasic($username, $password);
if (!$success) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText, "\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.\n";