Anyone able to tunnel gabber through ssh?

I tried this on my local machine:

local% ssh -v -L 5222:jabber.com:5222 outside
local% gabber

I set gabber to talk to local:5222, assuming it would forward the request across
the firewall.

Did I do something wrong?

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