diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 70c6a0c..39adf6d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,6 +28,18 @@ For these cases, the server needs to inspect the Origin header from the client a
 
 Note that the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header can only return a single value. This means that if you want to allow requests from multiple origins you need to dynamically whitelist those origins and return a different header value depending on the incoming request.
 
+Additionally if specific HTTP methods should be allowed an application should add:
+
+    Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, OPTIONS
+
+Here `GET` and `OPTIONS` are allowed.
+
+Similarly specific headers can be allowed:
+
+    Access-Control-Allow-Headers: content-type, Authorization
+
+In this case `content-type` and `Authorization` headers are allowed to be sent to the server in a CORS request.
+
 ## How to use this middleware
 
 We will assume you have an existing ASGI app, in a variable called `app`.
@@ -70,6 +82,15 @@ If you need to do something more complicated that cannot be expressed using the
 
 Your callback function will be passed the `Origin` header that was passed in by the browser.
 
+To add specific allowed headers or methods you can specify them with the `headers=` and `methods=` parameters:
+
+    app = asgi_cors(app, methods=[
+        "GET", "OPTIONS"
+    ], headers=[
+        "Authorization","content-type"
+    ])
+
+
 ## Using the middleware as a decorator
 
 If you are defining your ASGI application directly as a function, you can use the `asgi_cors_decorator` function decorator like so:
diff --git a/asgi_cors.py b/asgi_cors.py
index 2345c9a..e0971f3 100644
--- a/asgi_cors.py
+++ b/asgi_cors.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 
 def asgi_cors_decorator(
-    allow_all=False, hosts=None, host_wildcards=None, callback=None
+    allow_all=False, hosts=None, host_wildcards=None, callback=None, headers=None, methods=None
 ):
     hosts = hosts or []
     host_wildcards = host_wildcards or []
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ def asgi_cors_decorator(
     host_wildcards = [
         h.encode("utf8") if isinstance(h, str) else h for h in host_wildcards
     ]
+    headers = [
+        h.encode("utf8") if isinstance(h, str) else h for h in headers
+    ]
+    methods = [
+        h.encode("utf8") if isinstance(h, str) else h for h in methods
+    ]
 
     if any(h.endswith(b"/") for h in (hosts or [])) or any(
         h.endswith(b"/") for h in (host_wildcards or [])
@@ -43,6 +49,13 @@ async def wrapped_send(event):
                                 matches_callback = callback(incoming_origin)
                             if matches_hosts or matches_wildcards or matches_callback:
                                 access_control_allow_origin = incoming_origin
+                    access_control_allow_headers = ['content-type']
+                    if headers:
+                        access_control_allow_headers = headers
+                    access_control_allow_methods = ['GET']
+                    if methods:
+                        access_control_allow_methods = methods
+
                     if access_control_allow_origin is not None:
                         # Construct a new event with new headers
                         event = {
@@ -51,13 +64,25 @@ async def wrapped_send(event):
                             "headers": [
                                 p
                                 for p in original_headers
-                                if p[0] != b"access-control-allow-origin"
+                                if p[0] != b"access-control-allow-origin" and p[0] != b"access-control-allow-headers" and p[0] != b"access-control-allow-methods"
                             ]
                             + [
                                 [
                                     b"access-control-allow-origin",
                                     access_control_allow_origin,
                                 ]
+                            ]
+                            + [
+                                [
+                                    b"access-control-allow-headers",
+                                    b", ".join(access_control_allow_headers),
+                                ]
+                            ]
+                            + [
+                                [
+                                    b"access-control-allow-methods",
+                                    b", ".join(access_control_allow_methods),
+                                ]
                             ],
                         }
                 await send(event)
@@ -69,5 +94,5 @@ async def wrapped_send(event):
     return _asgi_cors_decorator
 
 
-def asgi_cors(app, allow_all=False, hosts=None, host_wildcards=None, callback=None):
-    return asgi_cors_decorator(allow_all, hosts, host_wildcards, callback)(app)
+def asgi_cors(app, allow_all=False, hosts=None, host_wildcards=None, callback=None, headers=None, methods=None):
+    return asgi_cors_decorator(allow_all, hosts, host_wildcards, callback, headers, methods)(app)