OOB Connection Feature

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Description

This is an exploratory PR to see what is involved to create an 'out of band connection' interface, which allows a server to provide a byte buffer (out of band) to a client that allows it to directly connect without going through the handshake.

Testing

New test case added

Documentation

TODO

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 50.00000% with 5 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 85.52%. Comparing base (14810af) to head (b4ecfc7).

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
src/core/connection.c	37.50%	5 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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- Hits        15137    14850     -287     
- Misses       2217     2514     +297     

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