What is the role of the Cloudflare proxy in the Home Assistant Cloudflare integration?

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What is the role of the Cloudflare proxy in the Home Assistant Cloudflare integration?
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The Cloudflare proxy acts as a reverse proxy, forwarding requests to your Home Assistant devices and then delivering the responses back to the user. It also provides caching capabilities to reduce latency.