axios causing an unintended OPTIONS request on HERE Autocomplete api - axios

I am getting a preflight error 405: Method not allowed from the HERE API when I request autocomplete as per the documentation.
UPDATE 2:
I have since determined that Axios was adding my default.common authentication headers from my app's API client onto the HERE API client. Axios is supposed to keep those defaults separate per-client, but it seems that it doesn't ... at least not the version I have. I replaced the defaults with a per-client request interceptor and it worked fine. The request no longer triggers an OPTION pre-flight. No issue with HERE's API other than that it doesn't support OPTION method.
UPDATE:
The reason it fails is because HERE does not support the OPTIONS method, only the GET. So now the question is: Why does axios trigger an OPTIONS request when I don't set any headers? An XMLHttpRequest() based GET request does not trigger OPTIONS for the same URL. Something is happening with axios but I don't know what and I can't seem to investigate the headers that axios is sending.
ORIGINAL:
I've tried to find information about this error, as well as HTTP vs HTTPS. I haven't seen others having this problem so I feel like I must be making a simple error. The URL is generated correctly because it works when pasted directly into the browser for example.
const hereClient = axios.create({
baseURL: 'https://autocomplete.geocoder.api.here.com/6.2/'
})
async function searchHere (query) {
let searchTerms = query.split(' ').join('+')
let result = await hereClient.get('suggest.json', {
params: {
app_id: '<APPID>',
app_code: '<APPCODE>',
query: searchTerms
}
})
return processHereSearchResults(result.data)
}
The GET request fails on the OPTION preflight with a 405: Method not allowed. But if I paste the generated URL into a browser then it returns the expected results. For example:
https://autocomplete.geocoder.api.here.com/6.2/suggest.json?app_id=APPID&app_code=APPCODE&query=8131
returns:
{"suggestions":[{"label":"Česko, Brandýs nad Orlicí, 3123","language":"cs","countryCode":"CZE","locationId":"N . . .
Same result whether http or https.

I have since determined that Axios was adding my default.common authentication headers from my app's API client onto the HERE API client. Axios is supposed to keep those defaults separate per-client, but it seems that it doesn't ... at least not the version I have. I replaced the default header setting with a per-client request interceptor to set my authentication and it worked fine. The request no longer triggers an OPTION pre-flight. No issue with HERE's API other than that it doesn't support OPTION method.

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