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Visual Basic 6.0

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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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim rest As New ChilkatRest

'  Connect to the REST server.  The 3rd argument enables TLS (use 1 for HTTPS on port 443),
'  and the 4th enables automatic reconnection if the connection is dropped between requests.
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

success = rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")
success = rest.AddHeader("X-Custom-Header","example-value")

'  Remove a previously added request header by name.
success = rest.RemoveHeader("X-Custom-Header")

Dim responseText As String
responseText = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/data")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print responseText