> We're using mhttpd for calls that end up working better with asynchronous requests, and we've built up sort of a parallel, asynchronous library using javascript Promises.
> 
> The Promises (which are in the ES6 spec) have worked incredibly well for building well-behaved, sequential calls to mhttpd.  Personally, I also find their syntax much easier to wrap my
> head around, especially compared to callbacks.
> 

Yes, the javascript wrappers for the json-rpc interface follow the Promise pattern - an RPC call is provided with two user functions,
one is called on success (and provides the rpc reply), the other on failure (and provides all rpc call information - the xhr object, any exception context, etc).

Use of the Promise class itself seems to be problematic - apparently it does not exist in google chrome 28 (the last version for RHEL/CentOS/SL6).

SL6 is still our main workhorse and it is good to have a choice of 2 browsers (old google chrome vs old firefox).

(All SL5 web browsers are already unusable with the modern web and current mhttpd.)

(Also the RPC calls have more than 1 item of data permitted by the javascript Promise class - of course it can be wrapped
be a container object - just an extra complication to document and to understand).

K.O.