There's no way to bypass Steam but according to the manual HL support (or other 3rd party server browsers) is possible, it's just not 1c's job to do it (just like they didn't do the work themselves for the previous IL2 series, the creator of HL did it on his own).
In other words, having HL support for CoD is possible if the creator of HL wants to do it, then you will be clicking the "join" button, HL will minimize and CoD will launch, just like with IL2. The difference is that launching CoD will automatically call up the steam client if it's not already running.
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