Delete article via Joomla 4 API

deletearticleviaapi.php

<?php
// Enter the path of your Joomla site.
$baseurl = 'http://localhost/j4a12';

// Joomla Super Admin Credentials
$user = 'admin';
$pass = 'admin';

// Article id to Delete
$articleid = 15;
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => $baseurl."/api/index.php/v1/content/article/".$articleid,
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Accept: */*",
    "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate",
	"Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode($user.':'.$pass),
    "Cache-Control: no-cache",
    "Connection: keep-alive",
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "cache-control: no-cache"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}