PHP

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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<?php

use Chilkat2\Rest;

$rest = new Rest();
$bTls = true;
$bAutoReconnect = true;
try {
    $rest->Connect('example.com', 443, $bTls, $bAutoReconnect);

    // 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';
    $rest->SetAuthBasic($username, $password);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\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();

echo "Authentication cleared.\n";