diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7d2ab33..2a4a5df 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ hyper = "1.4.0"
 futures-util = { version = "0.3.16", default-features = false }
 http = "1.0"
 http-body = "1.0.0"
-bytes = "1"
+bytes = "1.7.1"
 pin-project-lite = "0.2.4"
 futures-channel = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 socket2 = { version = "0.5", optional = true, features = ["all"] }
diff --git a/src/common/rewind.rs b/src/common/rewind.rs
index c75464e..87e0f64 100644
--- a/src/common/rewind.rs
+++ b/src/common/rewind.rs
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ use std::{
 /// Combine a buffer with an IO, rewinding reads to use the buffer.
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub(crate) struct Rewind<T> {
-    pre: Option<Bytes>,
-    inner: T,
+    pub(crate) pre: Option<Bytes>,
+    pub(crate) inner: T,
 }
 
 impl<T> Rewind<T> {
diff --git a/src/server/conn/auto.rs b/src/server/conn/auto/mod.rs
similarity index 99%
rename from src/server/conn/auto.rs
rename to src/server/conn/auto/mod.rs
index 1351a80..afe5a39 100644
--- a/src/server/conn/auto.rs
+++ b/src/server/conn/auto/mod.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 //! Http1 or Http2 connection.
 
+pub mod upgrade;
+
 use futures_util::ready;
 use hyper::service::HttpService;
 use std::future::Future;
@@ -163,6 +165,10 @@ impl<E> Builder<E> {
     /// Bind a connection together with a [`Service`], with the ability to
     /// handle HTTP upgrades. This requires that the IO object implements
     /// `Send`.
+    ///
+    /// Note that if you ever want to use [`hyper::upgrade::Upgraded::downcast`]
+    /// with this crate, you'll need to use [`hyper_util::server::conn::auto::upgrade::downcast`]
+    /// instead. See the documentation of the latter to understand why.
     pub fn serve_connection_with_upgrades<I, S, B>(
         &self,
         io: I,
diff --git a/src/server/conn/auto/upgrade.rs b/src/server/conn/auto/upgrade.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f4063bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/server/conn/auto/upgrade.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+//! Upgrade utilities.
+
+use bytes::{Bytes, BytesMut};
+use hyper::{
+    rt::{Read, Write},
+    upgrade::Upgraded,
+};
+
+use crate::common::rewind::Rewind;
+
+/// Tries to downcast the internal trait object to the type passed.
+///
+/// On success, returns the downcasted parts. On error, returns the Upgraded back.
+/// This is a kludge to work around the fact that the machinery provided by
+/// [`hyper_util::server::con::auto`] wraps the inner `T` with a private type
+/// that is not reachable from outside the crate.
+///
+/// This kludge will be removed when this machinery is added back to the main
+/// `hyper` code.
+pub fn downcast<T>(upgraded: Upgraded) -> Result<Parts<T>, Upgraded>
+where
+    T: Read + Write + Unpin + 'static,
+{
+    let hyper::upgrade::Parts {
+        io: rewind,
+        mut read_buf,
+        ..
+    } = upgraded.downcast::<Rewind<T>>()?;
+
+    if let Some(pre) = rewind.pre {
+        read_buf = if read_buf.is_empty() {
+            pre
+        } else {
+            let mut buf = BytesMut::from(read_buf);
+
+            buf.extend_from_slice(&pre);
+
+            buf.freeze()
+        };
+    }
+
+    Ok(Parts {
+        io: rewind.inner,
+        read_buf,
+    })
+}
+
+/// The deconstructed parts of an [`Upgraded`] type.
+///
+/// Includes the original IO type, and a read buffer of bytes that the
+/// HTTP state machine may have already read before completing an upgrade.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+#[non_exhaustive]
+pub struct Parts<T> {
+    /// The original IO object used before the upgrade.
+    pub io: T,
+    /// A buffer of bytes that have been read but not processed as HTTP.
+    ///
+    /// For instance, if the `Connection` is used for an HTTP upgrade request,
+    /// it is possible the server sent back the first bytes of the new protocol
+    /// along with the response upgrade.
+    ///
+    /// You will want to check for any existing bytes if you plan to continue
+    /// communicating on the IO object.
+    pub read_buf: Bytes,
+}