Firemole is particularly useful because it eliminates the need of encrypting links through SSH tunnels.
This is useful if you want encrypted sessions, but don`t want to have to worry about maintaining an SSH tunnel. Or maybe you`d like to give others access to a proxy server without giving them SSH access.
Firemole supports simultaneous access to multiple proxy servers, each of which can be configured with regular expressions to match URLs. So you can have a proxy server that google search requests are automatically directed to as well as a proxy server that work URLs are automatically directed to.
Or you can configure firemole to proxy some URL patterns but let other traffic pass without being proxied.
If you would like to use this in conjunction with squid, all you need to do is enable HTTPS in your squid.conf file with a line like this:
