Ruby

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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require 'chilkat'

success = false

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()
bTls = true
bAutoReconnect = true
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
if (success == false)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  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 == false)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  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";