apache / apache/pulsar

[feat] Allow Pulsar Proxy-to-Pulsar Proxy communication before reaching broker

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### Motivation

In some deployment scenarios, it's useful for one proxy to connect through another proxy before reaching the broker. The first proxy may not necessarily be a standard Pulsar Proxy, but as long as it follows the Pulsar protocol rules, the downstream proxy should be able to communicate with it seamlessly.
Supporting this “proxy-to-proxy” connection improves flexibility for complex network topologies, including multi-region deployments, edge-to-central routing, or hierarchical proxy layers. It ensures that authentication, routing, and protocol rules continue to work correctly, even when traffic passes through multiple proxies before reaching the broker.

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