How to test ssh socks by curl

Here are the steps that I did so far, and I adapted these steps to use on localhost to make debugging easier.

I have a user that have ssh access to localhost. So I run this:

ssh -D 7070 mysshuser@127.0.0.1

To test this I am using curl. So in another terminal (where I am connected with my regular user account not the ssh user account) tab I am running this:

curl -v --max-time 10 --proxy 127.0.0.1:7070 

In the command output I can see that the connection to the port 7070 was successful. However the page is not rendered (empty reply from server):

* Rebuilt URL to:
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 7070 (#0)
> GET HTTP/1.1
> Host:
> User-Agent: curl/7.47.0
> Accept: */*
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
>
* Empty reply from server
* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
curl: (52) Empty reply from server

Thank you

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I found out that the option of curl that should be used is socks5 instead of proxy. So this works like a charm:

curl -v --max-time 10 --socks5 127.0.0.1:7070 

But I am still waiting for other feedback.

thanks

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