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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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest
$bTls = $true
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("example.com",443,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    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 -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    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()

$("Authentication cleared.")