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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 <CkRestW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkRestW rest;
    bool bTls = true;
    bool bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect(L"example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",rest.lastErrorText());
        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.
    const wchar_t *username = L"myUsername";
    const wchar_t *password = L"myPassword";
    success = rest.SetAuthBasic(username,password);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  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();

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