diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index cb9afb2..a3d6836 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ Packer.create = function (opts) {
     machine.service     = machine._headers[4];
     machine.serviceport = machine._headers[5];
     machine.name        = machine._headers[6];
+    machine.servicename = machine._headers[7];
     //console.log('machine.service', machine.service);
 
     return true;
@@ -167,10 +168,15 @@ Packer.create = function (opts) {
     msg.name        = machine.name;
     msg.data        = data;
 
+    if ('connection' === machine.service) {
+      msg.service = machine.servicename;
+    }
+
+    //console.log('msn', machine.service);
     if (machine.emit) {
-      machine.emit(serviceEvents[msg.service] || serviceEvents.default);
+      machine.emit(serviceEvents[machine.service] || serviceEvents[msg.service] || serviceEvents.default);
     } else {
-      (machine[serviceFuncs[msg.service]] || machine[serviceFuncs.default])(msg);
+      (machine[serviceFuncs[machine.service]] || machine[serviceFuncs[msg.service]] || machine[serviceFuncs.default])(msg);
     }
 
     return true;
@@ -190,14 +196,19 @@ Packer.create = function (opts) {
         machine.state %= machine.states.length;
       }
     }
+    if ('data' === machine.states[machine.state] && 0 === machine.bodyLen) {
+      machine.fns[machine.states[machine.state]](chunk)
+      machine.state += 1;
+      machine.state %= machine.states.length;
+    }
   };
 
   return machine;
 };
 
 Packer.packHeader = function (meta, data, service, andBody, oldways) {
-  if (oldways) {
-    data = data || Buffer.from(' ');
+  if (oldways && !data) {
+    data = Buffer.from(' ');
   }
   if (data && !Buffer.isBuffer(data)) {
     data = new Buffer(JSON.stringify(data));
@@ -206,7 +217,8 @@ Packer.packHeader = function (meta, data, service, andBody, oldways) {
     data = Buffer.from(' ');
   }
 
-  if (service && service !== 'control') {
+  if (service && -1 === ['control','connection'].indexOf(service)) {
+    //console.log('end?', service);
     meta.service = service;
   }
 
@@ -217,6 +229,13 @@ Packer.packHeader = function (meta, data, service, andBody, oldways) {
   if (service === 'control') {
     header = Buffer.from(['', '', '', size, service].join(','));
   }
+  else if (service === 'connection') {
+    header = Buffer.from([
+      meta.family, meta.address, meta.port, size,
+      'connection', (meta.serviceport || ''), (meta.name || ''),
+      (meta.service || '')
+    ].join(','));
+  }
   else {
     header = Buffer.from([
       meta.family, meta.address, meta.port, size,
@@ -323,6 +342,7 @@ var addressNames = [
 , 'localAddress'
 , 'localPort'
 ];
+/*
 var sockFuncs = [
   'address'
 , 'destroy'
@@ -333,6 +353,7 @@ var sockFuncs = [
 , 'setNoDelay'
 , 'setTimeout'
 ];
+*/
 // Unlike Packer.Stream.create this should handle all of the events needed to make everything work.
 Packer.wrapSocket = function (socket) {
   // node v10.2+ doesn't need a workaround for  https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8854
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f0e959c..dac7301 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "proxy-packer",
-  "version": "1.5.0",
+  "version": "2.0.0",
   "description": "A strategy for packing and unpacking a proxy stream (i.e. packets through a tunnel). Handles multiplexed and tls connections. Used by telebit and telebitd.",
   "main": "index.js",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/test/parse.js b/test/parse.js
index 25ab0b0..5b48111 100644
--- a/test/parse.js
+++ b/test/parse.js
@@ -3,48 +3,72 @@
 var sni = require('sni');
 var hello = require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname + '/sni.hello.bin');
 var version = 1;
-var address = {
-  family: 'IPv4'
-, address: '127.0.1.1'
-, port: 4321
-, service: 'foo-https'
-, serviceport: 443
-, name: 'foo-pokemap.hellabit.com'
-};
-var header = address.family + ',' + address.address + ',' + address.port + ',' + hello.byteLength
-  + ',' + (address.service || '') + ',' + (address.serviceport || '') + ',' + (address.name || '')
+function getAddress() {
+  return {
+    family: 'IPv4'
+  , address: '127.0.1.1'
+  , port: 4321
+  , service: 'foo-https'
+  , serviceport: 443
+  , name: 'foo-pokemap.hellabit.com'
+  };
+}
+var addr = getAddress();
+var connectionHeader = addr.family + ',' + addr.address + ',' + addr.port
+  + ',0,connection,'
+  + (addr.serviceport || '') + ',' + (addr.name || '') + ',' + (addr.service || '')
+  ;
+var           header = addr.family + ',' + addr.address + ',' + addr.port
+  + ',' + hello.byteLength + ',' + (addr.service || '') + ','
+  + (addr.serviceport || '') + ',' + (addr.name || '')
+  ;
+var        endHeader = addr.family + ',' + addr.address + ',' + addr.port
+  + ',0,end,'
+  + (addr.serviceport || '') + ',' + (addr.name || '')
   ;
 var buf = Buffer.concat([
-  Buffer.from([ 255 - version, header.length ])
+  Buffer.from([ 255 - version, connectionHeader.length ])
+, Buffer.from(connectionHeader)
+, Buffer.from([ 255 - version, header.length ])
 , Buffer.from(header)
 , hello
+, Buffer.from([ 255 - version, endHeader.length ])
+, Buffer.from(endHeader)
 ]);
 var services = { 'ssh': 22, 'http': 4080, 'https': 8443 };
 var clients = {};
 var count = 0;
 var packer = require('../');
 var machine = packer.create({
-  onmessage: function (tun) {
+  onconnection: function (tun) {
+    console.info('');
+    if (!tun.service || 'connection' === tun.service) {
+      throw new Error("missing service: " + JSON.stringify(tun));
+    }
+    console.info('[onConnection]');
+    count += 1;
+  }
+, onmessage: function (tun) {
+    //console.log('onmessage', tun);
     var id = tun.family + ',' + tun.address + ',' + tun.port;
     var service = 'https';
     var port = services[service];
     var servername = sni(tun.data);
 
-    console.log('');
-    console.log('[onMessage]');
+    console.info('[onMessage]', service, port, servername, tun.data.byteLength);
     if (!tun.data.equals(hello)) {
       throw new Error("'data' packet is not equal to original 'hello' packet");
     }
-    console.log('all', tun.data.byteLength, 'bytes are equal');
-    console.log('src:', tun.family, tun.address + ':' + tun.port + ':' + tun.serviceport);
-    console.log('dst:', 'IPv4 127.0.0.1:' + port);
+    //console.log('all', tun.data.byteLength, 'bytes are equal');
+    //console.log('src:', tun.family, tun.address + ':' + tun.port + ':' + tun.serviceport);
+    //console.log('dst:', 'IPv4 127.0.0.1:' + port);
 
     if (!clients[id]) {
       clients[id] = true;
       if (!servername) {
         throw new Error("no servername found for '" + id + "'");
       }
-      console.log("servername: '" + servername + "'", tun.name);
+      //console.log("servername: '" + servername + "'", tun.name);
     }
 
     count += 1;
@@ -53,36 +77,93 @@ var machine = packer.create({
     throw new Error("Did not expect onerror");
   }
 , onend: function () {
-    throw new Error("Did not expect onend");
+    console.info('[onEnd]');
+    count += 1;
   }
 });
-var packed = packer.pack(address, hello);
+
+var packts, packed;
+
+packts = [];
+packts.push(packer.packHeader(getAddress(), null, 'connection'));
+//packts.push(packer.pack(address, hello));
+packts.push(packer.packHeader(getAddress(), hello));
+packts.push(hello);
+packts.push(packer.packHeader(getAddress(), null, 'end'));
+packed = Buffer.concat(packts);
 
 if (!packed.equals(buf)) {
+  console.error("");
   console.error(buf.toString('hex') === packed.toString('hex'));
+  console.error("");
+  console.error("auto-packed:");
   console.error(packed.toString('hex'), packed.byteLength);
+  console.error("");
+  console.error("hand-packed:");
   console.error(buf.toString('hex'), buf.byteLength);
-  throw new Error("packer did not pack as expected");
+  console.error("");
+  throw new Error("packer (new) did not pack as expected");
+}
+
+packts = [];
+packts.push(packer.pack(getAddress(), null, 'connection'));
+packts.push(packer.pack(getAddress(), hello));
+//packts.push(packer.packHeader(getAddress(), hello));
+//packts.push(hello);
+packts.push(packer.pack(getAddress(), null, 'end'));
+packed = Buffer.concat(packts);
+
+// XXX TODO REMOVE
+//
+// Nasty fix for short-term backwards-compat
+//
+// In the old way of doing things we always have at least one byte
+// of data (due to a parser bug which has now been fixed) and so
+// there are two strings padded with a space which gives the
+// data a length of 1 rather than 0
+//
+// Here all four of those instances are replaced, but it requires
+// maching a few things on either side.
+//
+// Only 6 bytes are changed - two 1 => 0, four ' ' => ''
+var hex = packed.toString('hex')
+  //.replace(/2c313939/, '2c30')
+  .replace(/32312c312c636f/, '32312c302c636f')
+  .replace(/3332312c312c656e64/, '3332312c302c656e64')
+  .replace(/7320/, '73')
+  .replace(/20$/, '')
+  ;
+if (hex !== buf.toString('hex')) {
+  console.error("");
+  console.error(buf.toString('hex') === hex);
+  console.error("");
+  console.error("auto-packed:");
+  console.error(hex, packed.byteLength);
+  console.error("");
+  console.error("hand-packed:");
+  console.error(buf.toString('hex'), buf.byteLength);
+  console.error("");
+  throw new Error("packer (old) did not pack as expected");
 }
 
 
-console.log('');
+console.info('');
 
 // full message in one go
 // 223 = 2 + 22 + 199
-console.log('[WHOLE BUFFER]', 2, header.length, hello.length, buf.byteLength);
+console.info('[WHOLE BUFFER]', 2, header.length, hello.length, buf.byteLength);
 clients = {};
 machine.fns.addChunk(buf);
-console.log('');
+console.info('');
 
 
 // messages one byte at a time
-console.log('[BYTE-BY-BYTE BUFFER]', 1);
+console.info('[BYTE-BY-BYTE BUFFER]', 1);
 clients = {};
 buf.forEach(function (byte) {
   machine.fns.addChunk(Buffer.from([ byte ]));
 });
-console.log('');
+console.info('');
 
 
 // split messages in overlapping thirds
@@ -93,7 +174,7 @@ console.log('');
 // 225-247  (22)
 // 247-446  (199)
 buf = Buffer.concat([ buf, buf ]);
-console.log('[OVERLAPPING BUFFERS]', buf.length);
+console.info('[OVERLAPPING BUFFERS]', buf.length);
 clients = {};
 [ buf.slice(0, 7)                 // version + header
 , buf.slice(7, 14)                // header
@@ -106,12 +187,12 @@ clients = {};
 ].forEach(function (buf) {
   machine.fns.addChunk(Buffer.from(buf));
 });
-console.log('');
+console.info('');
 
 process.on('exit', function () {
-  if (count !== 4) {
-    throw new Error("should have delivered 4 messages, not", count);
+  if (count !== 12) {
+    throw new Error("should have delivered 12 messages, not " + count);
   }
-  console.log('TESTS PASS');
-  console.log('');
+  console.info('TESTS PASS');
+  console.info('');
 });