> You have to stick to the format of a URL - the part before the // is the *protocol* not any sort of address - 
> com1 is an address.  If you were going to do something like this there would need to be a new protocol defined 
> (let's call it "ser:" for serial! :-)

I'd go with "serial:" I don't see any reason to abbreviate this.

> So you would have something like:
> 
>  ser://com1.mymachine/analog?chan=1

> where:
>  "com1" is the name of a serial port
>  "mymachine" is the name of the machine the port is fitted to, and could be omitted if it's the machine you 
> are running on

I can't picture using this URL on a different machine.

Otherwise, I *love* it.
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