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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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#include <C_CkRestW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkRestW rest;
    BOOL bTls;
    BOOL bAutoReconnect;
    const wchar_t *username;
    const wchar_t *password;

    success = FALSE;

    rest = CkRestW_Create();
    bTls = TRUE;
    bAutoReconnect = TRUE;
    success = CkRestW_Connect(rest,L"example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    //  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 = L"myUsername";
    password = L"myPassword";
    success = CkRestW_SetAuthBasic(rest,username,password);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    //  ClearAuth removes any authentication providers and credentials previously configured through the
    //  SetAuth* methods, for example before reusing the object for an unauthenticated request.
    CkRestW_ClearAuth(rest);

    wprintf(L"Authentication cleared.\n");


    CkRestW_Dispose(rest);

    }