Embedded web server with serial out?

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

I have a use for a "thing" with the following characteristics -
does such a thing exist?

1: Ethernet port
2: DHCP, or the ability to hard-wire an IP address
3: Serial port 
4: Ability to send arbitrary serial commands out on the serial port in
response to network requests
5: Vanishingly cheap

When I say "network requests", I mean something that either an
http client, or a Windows command-line so CGI-script on my intranet server
(need not be http) could send.

Something that came with a 32-bit windows application that went

> SerialSend <IP-address> <String>

would be ideal :-)



I have a couple of devices around the house that can be serial-controlled,
and would like to control them over ethernet...

The serial control requirements are typically simple, but it _mustn't_ be
something hard-wired into the device at "programming time" - it
must be capable of modification on the fly...

Regards,

Mark


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