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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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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

rest = chilkat.CkRest()

#  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.
bTls = True
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
if (success == False):
    print(rest.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

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")

responseText = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/data")
if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == False):
    print(rest.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print(responseText)