I wasn't asking for the "cool" factor. If you can open a web page AND access the stuff it returns you can make a serial-to-web-page bridge!
You could have an local exe running side by side with you flash application that connects to the serial port and returns values as HTML pages! It would answer to requests of the form:
http://127.0.0.1:8585/get1byte
and return something like this:
<html>
<body>
0x12
</body>
The html code sample is made intentionally over-bloated to make a point. If you can't see how this would work then you'd need to steer towards an other easy language, like Delphi, C++, C#, VB, whatever - because making Flash talk to the serial port is all about using things for stuff they're not ment to be used! Remember, flash itself is not made to talk to the serial port, it's made to make safe animation. If an Flash movie would be free to access my serial port whenever it pleases it would be free to use my dial up modem to dial that overtaxed number overseas - and I'd never know it (until the bill comes in
). If you think the dial-up scenario is fantasy, think again, there were some worms out there that did exactly that: dial overseas overtaxed numbers. The problem was so bad it forced Romania's main fixed line telephone provider to stop access to that kind of numbers, to protect it's clients.
