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They can just forward the encrypted bytes (I don't know if that's how they actually do it). Cloudflare does mitm decryption in order to inject its own code and captcha in the pages.

Worth noting is that it is not a transparent proxy. Firefox is aware of the mitm, and cooperates with it to achieve security.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel#HTTP_CONNECT_metho...