HTTP/3: add proxy CONNECT and MASQUE CONNECT-UDP support (ngtcp2 QUIC)

This patch adds two major proxy capabilities to curl (ngtcp2 QUIC):
- HTTP/3 Proxy CONNECT: Tunnel HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 traffic through an
  HTTPS proxy that speaks HTTP/3 (QUIC) using the standard CONNECT
  method over an HTTP/3 connection.
- MASQUE CONNECT-UDP: Tunnel HTTP/3 (QUIC) traffic through an HTTP
  proxy (speaking HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, or HTTP/3) using the extended
  CONNECT method with the CONNECT-UDP protocol (RFC9297 & RFC9298).

Public API additions:
- `CURLPROXY_HTTPS3`: new proxy type constant for HTTP/3 proxy
- `--proxy-http3`: new CLI flag to negotiate HTTP/3 with HTTPS proxy

The implementation adds two new filters:
- `H3-PROXY` - enables negotiating HTTP/3 (QUIC) to the proxy and
  running CONNECT/CONNECT-UDP through that proxy transport.
- `CAPSULE` - dedicated filter inserted between QUIC transport and
  HTTP-PROXY to handle datagram capsule encapsulation/decapsulation.

Here is how the curl filter chaining looks in different scenarios:
- HTTP/3 Proxy CONNECT (tunneling TCP protocols over QUIC proxy):
  conn -> HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2  -> SSL -> HTTP-PROXY ->
                                 H3-PROXY -> HAPPY-EYEBALLS -> UDP
- MASQUE CONNECT-UDP (tunneling QUIC over any proxy):
  conn -> HTTP/3 -> CAPSULE -> HTTP-PROXY -> H3-PROXY ->
                               HAPPY-EYEBALLS -> UDP
  conn -> HTTP/3 -> CAPSULE -> HTTP-PROXY -> H1-PROXY or H2-PROXY ->
                               SSL -> HAPPY-EYEBALLS -> TCP

- Both features currently require the ngtcp2 QUIC backend.
- Both features are experimental (disabled by default). Enable with
  `--enable-proxy-http3`(autotools) or `-DUSE_PROXY_HTTP3=ON`(CMake).

Tests:
- tests/unit/unit3400.c: Unit tests for capsule protocol encode/decode
- tests/http/test_60_h3_proxy.py: Comprehensive pytest integration suite
- tests/http/testenv/h2o.py: Managing h2o instances with HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2,
  and HTTP/3 (QUIC) listeners, proxy.connect and proxy.connect-udp enabled.

References:
  RFC 9297 - HTTP Datagrams and the Capsule Protocol
  RFC 9298 - Proxying UDP in HTTP
  RFC 9000 §16 — Variable-Length Integer Encoding

Signed-off-by: Aritra Basu <aritrbas+gh@cisco.com>

Closes #21153
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@ -298,6 +298,13 @@ supports HTTP NTLM
libcurl was built with support for NTLM delegation to a winbind helper. This
feature was removed from curl in 8.8.0.
## `PROXY-HTTP3`
*features* mask bit: non-existent
libcurl was built with EXPERIMENTAL support for HTTP/3 proxy tunneling
(Added in 8.21.0)
## `PSL`
*features* mask bit: CURL_VERSION_PSL

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@ -58,7 +58,11 @@ HTTPS Proxy. (with OpenSSL, GnuTLS, mbedTLS, Rustls, Schannel or wolfSSL.)
This uses HTTP/1 by default. Setting CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE(3) to
**CURLPROXY_HTTPS2** allows libcurl to negotiate using HTTP/2 with proxy.
## `socks4://`
Setting CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE(3) to **CURLPROXY_HTTPS3** allows libcurl to
negotiate using HTTP/3 with proxy. This feature is experimental and requires
a build with HTTP/3 proxy support enabled.
## socks4://
SOCKS4 Proxy.

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@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ HTTPS Proxy using HTTP/1. (Added in 7.52.0 for OpenSSL and GnuTLS. Since
HTTPS Proxy and attempt to speak HTTP/2 over it. (Added in 8.1.0)
## CURLPROXY_HTTPS3
HTTPS Proxy and attempt to speak HTTP/3 over it. (Added in 8.21.0)
This feature is experimental and requires a build with HTTP/3 proxy support
enabled.
## CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0
HTTP 1.0 Proxy. This is similar to CURLPROXY_HTTP except it uses HTTP/1.0 for

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@ -993,6 +993,7 @@ CURLPROXY_HTTP 7.10
CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0 7.19.4
CURLPROXY_HTTPS 7.52.0
CURLPROXY_HTTPS2 8.1.0
CURLPROXY_HTTPS3 8.21.0
CURLPROXY_SOCKS4 7.10
CURLPROXY_SOCKS4A 7.18.0
CURLPROXY_SOCKS5 7.10