JS Promise chain .catch() not working after rejected

Question

I can not get the .catch to work. I have tried multiple solutions like throw and the uncommented reject(). I am puzzled why it is not working, since I tested https://stackoverflow.com/a/47803880/7262739 which seems to work exactly the same, but resulting in a working .catch.

I get this error: Unhandled rejected promise: 404 Not Found as if I didn't handle the rejection.

simplified version of the code:

makeRequest(theUrlOne)
    .then(result => makeRequest(theUrlTwo))
    .catch(result => console.log(result)) // not working, but not the problem
    .then(result => resolve('Success.'))
    .catch(result => resolve('Failed.')) // the problem-child

function makeRequest(url, method, datatype, timeout) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {

        http.simpleRequest({
            'method': method || 'GET',
            'url': url,
            'dataType': datatype || 'json',
            'timeout': timeout || 6000,
        }, function (error, response) {

            if (error) {
                return Promise.reject(error)
                // reject(error)
            }
            if (response.statusCode != 200) {
                return Promise.reject(response.status)
                // reject(response.status)
            }
            let parsed = JSON.parse(response.data)

            resolve(parsed);
        });
    })
}

Answer 1

Turns out my first solution actually was working, but I misunderstood the output.

        if (error) {
            reject(error)
        }
        if (response.statusCode != 200) {
            reject(response.status)
        }