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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@ -32,14 +32,47 @@
enum Curl_proxy_use {
HEADER_SERVER, /* direct to server */
HEADER_PROXY, /* regular request to proxy */
HEADER_CONNECT /* sending CONNECT to a proxy */
HEADER_CONNECT, /* sending CONNECT to a proxy */
HEADER_CONNECT_UDP /* sending CONNECT-UDP to a proxy */
};
/* HTTP version for proxy tunnel request creation */
typedef enum {
PROXY_HTTP_V1 = 1,
PROXY_HTTP_V2 = 2,
PROXY_HTTP_V3 = 3
} proxy_http_ver;
/* Result from inspecting a proxy tunnel response */
typedef enum {
PROXY_INSPECT_OK, /* Tunnel established */
PROXY_INSPECT_FAILED, /* Tunnel failed */
PROXY_INSPECT_AUTH_RETRY /* Retry with auth */
} proxy_inspect_result;
CURLcode Curl_http_proxy_create_CONNECT(struct httpreq **preq,
struct Curl_cfilter *cf,
struct Curl_easy *data,
struct Curl_peer *dest,
int httpversion);
proxy_http_ver ver);
CURLcode Curl_http_proxy_create_CONNECTUDP(struct httpreq **preq,
struct Curl_cfilter *cf,
struct Curl_easy *data,
struct Curl_peer *dest,
proxy_http_ver ver);
/* Create CONNECT or CONNECT-UDP request */
CURLcode Curl_http_proxy_create_tunnel_request(
struct httpreq **preq, struct Curl_cfilter *cf,
struct Curl_easy *data, struct Curl_peer *dest,
proxy_http_ver ver, bool udp_tunnel);
/* Inspect tunnel response for H2/H3 proxy (capsule-protocol, auth) */
struct http_resp;
CURLcode Curl_http_proxy_inspect_tunnel_response(
struct Curl_cfilter *cf, struct Curl_easy *data,
struct http_resp *resp, bool udp_tunnel,
proxy_inspect_result *presult);
/* Default proxy timeout in milliseconds */
#define PROXY_TIMEOUT (3600 * 1000)
@ -47,13 +80,17 @@ CURLcode Curl_http_proxy_create_CONNECT(struct httpreq **preq,
CURLcode Curl_cf_http_proxy_insert_after(struct Curl_cfilter *cf_at,
struct Curl_easy *data,
struct Curl_peer *dest,
uint8_t proxytype);
uint8_t proxytype,
bool udp_tunnel);
extern struct Curl_cftype Curl_cft_http_proxy;
#endif /* !CURL_DISABLE_PROXY && !CURL_DISABLE_HTTP */
#define IS_HTTPS_PROXY(t) (((t) == CURLPROXY_HTTPS) || \
((t) == CURLPROXY_HTTPS2))
((t) == CURLPROXY_HTTPS2) || \
((t) == CURLPROXY_HTTPS3))
#define IS_QUIC_PROXY(t) ((t) == CURLPROXY_HTTPS3)
#endif /* HEADER_CURL_HTTP_PROXY_H */