Help needed understanding why a cy.request() is timing out, but an equivalent cy.exec('curl') seems to be working.

[ghowardzoonou]

Hi, Cypress version is: v13.14.1, running from Windows/Chrome.

Basically, I'm trying to understand why out of the following - numbers 1 - 3 all come back with some response (even if it's an error - that's fine), but number 4 always just times-out with No response was received within the timeout? AFAICT 2 and 4 should basically be doing the same thing?

describe('API Test', () => {

  it('1. exec cURL OPTIONS', () => {
    cy.exec('curl --request OPTIONS https://www.lego.com/api/graphql/SearchProductsQuery').then(response => {
      cy.log(JSON.stringify(response))
    })
  })

  it('2. exec cURL POST', () => {
    cy.exec('curl --request POST https://www.lego.com/api/graphql/SearchProductsQuery').then(response => {
      cy.log(JSON.stringify(response))
    })
  })

  it('3. cy.request OPTIONS', () => {
    cy.request({
      method: 'OPTIONS',
      url: 'https://www.lego.com/api/graphql/SearchProductsQuery',
    }).then((response) => {
      cy.log(JSON.stringify(response))
    })
  })

  it('4. cy.request POST', () => {
    cy.request({
      method: 'POST',
      url: 'https://www.lego.com/api/graphql/SearchProductsQuery',
    }).then((response) => {
      cy.log(JSON.stringify(response))
    })
  })

})

I've tried setting: failOnStatusCode: false and chromeWebSecurity: false but doesn't seem to make a difference. Equivalent calls from Postman also seem to work very straightforwardly. Not sure why number 4 is behaving differently?