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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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#include <C_CkRestW.h>

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

    success = FALSE;

    rest = CkRestW_Create();

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

    CkRestW_AddHeader(rest,L"Accept",L"application/json");
    CkRestW_AddHeader(rest,L"X-Custom-Header",L"example-value");

    //  Remove a previously added request header by name.
    CkRestW_RemoveHeader(rest,L"X-Custom-Header");

    responseText = CkRestW_fullRequestNoBody(rest,L"GET",L"/api/data");
    if (CkRestW_getLastMethodSuccess(rest) == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"%s\n",responseText);


    CkRestW_Dispose(rest);

    }