title: How to connect to an ethernet socket per browser?
body: <p>I'm working on a project that involves controlling a piece of hardware over ethernet.</p>
  
  <p>the remote control app should be accessible for normal browsers, tablets and possibly smartphones (and should run locally!). so as far as i see it, i'm limited to html/javascript</p>
  
  <p>the device is listening on normal ethernet ports.</p>
  
  <p>is there a way i can open a socket to those?</p>
  
  <p>i've been reading a lot about websockets and socket.io lately, but none of them seem to really do the trick. (both require a server that understands them, which is not the case here. this device just understands plain telnet)</p>
  
  <p>I'm pretty confused, as i thought that SHOULD be a pretty easy task, but right now i just don't know what to do</p>