privileged port for hts

Hi.

Could it be that privileged ports do not work?

This works:
$ hts --forward-port localhost:22 1024
$ htc --forward-port 8888 localhost:1024
$ ssh -p 8888 root@localhost


This does not:
$ hts --forward-port localhost:22 1023
$ htc --forward-port 8888 localhost:1023
$ ssh -p 8888 root@localhost

Version: hts (httptunnel) 3.3 from Debian Jessie stable

My goal is to tunnel ssh and have hts listen on port 80....

Thanks,
Peter.