diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 05f58edb..58744490 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ To use swagger-ui you should take a look at the [source of swagger-ui html page]
         dom_id:"swagger-ui-container",
         apiKey:"special-key",
         supportHeaderParams: false,
+        headers: { "Authorization": "XXXX", "someOtherHeader": "YYYY" },
         supportedSubmitMethods: ['get', 'post', 'put']
     });
 
@@ -71,6 +72,11 @@ header parameters are supported. However because of [Cross-Origin Resource Shari
 
     supportHeaderParams: true
 
+### Custom Header Parameters - (For Basic auth etc)
+If you have some header parameters which you need to send with every request, use the headers as below:
+
+     headers: { "Authorization": "XXXX", "someOtherHeader": "YYYY" }
+
 ### Api Key Parameter
 If you enter an api key in swagger-ui, it sends a parameter named 'api\_key' as a query (or as a header param if you've enabled it as described above). You may not want to use the name 'api\_key' as the name of this parameter. You can change its name by setting the _apiKeyName_ parameter when you instantiate a SwaggerUI instance. For example to call it 'sessionId'
 
diff --git a/lib/swagger.js b/lib/swagger.js
index 406a48cc..37d33ce3 100644
--- a/lib/swagger.js
+++ b/lib/swagger.js
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
       }
       this.failure = options.failure != null ? options.failure : function() {};
       this.progress = options.progress != null ? options.progress : function() {};
+      this.headers = options.headers != null ? options.headers : {};
       this.discoveryUrl = this.suffixApiKey(this.discoveryUrl);
       if (options.success != null) {
         this.build();
@@ -394,7 +395,7 @@
     };
 
     SwaggerOperation.prototype.getMatchingParams = function(paramTypes, args, includeApiKey) {
-      var matchingParams, param, _i, _len, _ref;
+      var matchingParams, name, param, value, _i, _len, _ref, _ref1;
       matchingParams = {};
       _ref = this.parameters;
       for (_i = 0, _len = _ref.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
@@ -406,6 +407,13 @@
       if (includeApiKey && (this.resource.api.api_key != null) && this.resource.api.api_key.length > 0) {
         matchingParams[this.resource.api.apiKeyName] = this.resource.api.api_key;
       }
+      if (jQuery.inArray('header', paramTypes) >= 0) {
+        _ref1 = this.resource.api.headers;
+        for (name in _ref1) {
+          value = _ref1[name];
+          matchingParams[name] = value;
+        }
+      }
       return matchingParams;
     };