The UCS component web proxy allows the use of a web cache for increasing the performance and controlling data traffic.
The proxy server receives enquiries about Internet contents and verifies whether these contents are already available in a local cache. If this is the case, the requested data are provided from the local cache. If the data are not available, these contents are called up from the respective web server and inserted in the local cache. This can be used to reduce the answering times for the users and the transfer volume via the Internet access.
In addition, it also makes the checking and administration of the access to Internet contents possible. For example, it can be specified which users or user groups can access which websites and which can’t. This is done using so-called blacklists and whitelists, on which the individual addresses are saved.
