Visual Basic 6.0

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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Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim rest As New ChilkatRest
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim bAutoReconnect As Long
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
'  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
Dim username As String
username = "myUsername"
Dim password As String
password = "myPassword"
success = rest.SetAuthBasic(username,password)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

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

Debug.Print "Authentication cleared."