How the -D option work (dynamic forwardind)

Hi,

I use ssh for a while and I'm familiar with local port forwarding to
secure some connection or so. I decide to try the Dynamic port
forwarding option, by curiosity. I've read the man page of ssh, the
description for the -D option is pretty short.. I expect the thing to be
easy to settup, but I've never get it to work.

Here's what I tried:

- On the Client:
ssh -D8080 me@server

I've verify with netstat to be sure the client is really
listening on 127.0.0.1 port 8080..

After that, start Firefox, I setup to use a manual Proxy on
127.0.0.1 port 8080.

With this configuration in firefox, If I try any addresse, let say
"http://www.google.com";, It give no error, the busy indicator stop in a
very short time and I always get a white page. So firefox seems to be
connected to that proxy. If I try to put another port than my Dynamic
port tunnel, for sure, I got an error, as expected.

What I'm doing wrong, is there something I forgot to do to make work the
Dynamic forwarding ?

Thank you for your help.

--
Martin
.

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