| Cache authentication |
Supported (Only threaded mode) |
| Cache authorization |
Supported (Only threaded mode) |
| Authorization |
[Mod authorization] Supported using: Group on file system / Directory ldap query (up to 20 directories) / 【new】Mysql DB query |
| Socks upstream |
SS5 can servs client requests through other Socks servers. Protocol conversion from V5 to V4 is supported only for CONNECT operation. |
| Traffic dump |
[Mod dump] SS5 can dump client sessions to file |
| Load Balancing |
[Mod balancing] SS5 balances the requests over different servers (Only threaded mode). Session affinity can be set |
| Bandwidth profiling |
[Mod bandwidth] SS5 can limit bandwidth per user or per IP. It can also limit number of connections per user (Only threaded mode) |
| Traffic filtering |
[Mod filter] The following protocols are supported: http/s、smtp、pop3、imap4 |
| Internet Cache Protocol (ICP) |
[Mod filter] A new protocols is supported to fetch http objects from external cache http proxy:icache |
| Server statistics |
[Mod statistics] Web console shows server statistics and other information such as client sessions etc (Only threaded mode). |
| 【new】Server manager |
New command line tool to query or change socks online configuration. |
| Centralized configuration management |
SS5 can propagate local configuration to other remote istances of socks servers using a propagate key as security mechanism |