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Clear All Request Headers on a REST Object

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Demonstrates Rest.ClearAllHeaders, which removes every request header previously added to the object.

Background. Clearing headers is a convenient way to reset request state before reusing the same Rest object for an unrelated request.

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Ruby
require 'chilkat'

success = false

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()

#  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() + "\n";
    exit
end

rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
rest.AddHeader("X-Custom-Header","example-value")

#  Remove all request headers previously added to this object, for example before reusing the same
#  Rest object for a different request.
rest.ClearAllHeaders()

print "All request headers cleared." + "\n";