Its treatment ranks far above and beyond anything that I have ever seen in a Socks 5 server. With the ability to tunnel or proxy, it is quite versatile. Since Netscape has the ability to cache, it can save a lot of bandwidth. Our server is set to cache and, according to my analysis, it reduces our bandwidth usage by 30 percent. That not only saves us money on ISP charges, but accessing cached pages means more LAN speed.
Users love that.
Browser configuration is not a concern. Netscape Proxy Server supports browser autoconfiguration. That lets us make all kinds of changes to the proxy without the users ever knowing it. That's a big plus for us because we have users spread out over 13 states. Finally, Netscape Proxy Server can act as a secure reverse proxy.