diff --git a/pygeoapi-config.yml b/pygeoapi-config.yml
index 1b66c8e..a3c2bdc 100644
--- a/pygeoapi-config.yml
+++ b/pygeoapi-config.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ server:
     mimetype: application/json; charset=UTF-8
     encoding: utf-8
     language: en-US
+    cors: true
     pretty_print: true
     limit: 10
 
diff --git a/pygeoapi/flask_app.py b/pygeoapi/flask_app.py
index 915fda8..d22e6b0 100644
--- a/pygeoapi/flask_app.py
+++ b/pygeoapi/flask_app.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import yaml
 import click
 
 from flask import Flask, make_response, request
+from flask_cors import CORS
 
 from pygeoapi import views
 from pygeoapi.config import settings
@@ -109,6 +110,9 @@ def serve(ctx, debug=False):
     if not settings['server']['pretty_print']:
         APP.config['JSONIFY_PRETTYPRINT_REGULAR'] = False
 
+    if settings['server']['cors']:
+        CORS(APP)
+
     setup_logger()
     # TODO: get scheme
     BASEURL = get_url('http', settings['server']['host'],
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3bbb7e1..9896e14 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 click
 elasticsearch
 flask
+flask_cors
 pyyaml
 requests
 shapely