diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ba1f331..f611c66 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -711,6 +711,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "async-stream",
  "async-trait",
  "base64",
+ "http",
  "log",
  "ollama-rs",
  "regex",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6b32046..e88e168 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,18 +22,21 @@ scraper = { version = "0.19.0", optional = true }
 text-splitter = { version = "0.13.1", optional = true }
 regex = { version = "1.9.3", optional = true }
 async-stream = "0.3.5"
+http = {version = "1.1.0", optional = true }
 
 [features]
 default = ["reqwest/default-tls"]
 stream = ["tokio-stream", "reqwest/stream", "tokio"]
 rustls = ["reqwest/rustls-tls"]
 chat-history = []
+headers = ["http"]
 function-calling = ["scraper", "text-splitter", "regex", "chat-history"]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
 ollama-rs = { path = ".", features = [
   "stream",
+  "headers",
   "chat-history",
   "function-calling",
 ] }
diff --git a/src/generation/chat/mod.rs b/src/generation/chat/mod.rs
index 09d628e..bf511f0 100644
--- a/src/generation/chat/mod.rs
+++ b/src/generation/chat/mod.rs
@@ -32,9 +32,12 @@ impl Ollama {
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request)
             .map_err(|e| e.to_string())
             .unwrap();
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
@@ -75,9 +78,12 @@ impl Ollama {
 
         let url = format!("{}api/chat", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
diff --git a/src/generation/completion/mod.rs b/src/generation/completion/mod.rs
index a7ba8cd..99382d0 100644
--- a/src/generation/completion/mod.rs
+++ b/src/generation/completion/mod.rs
@@ -32,9 +32,12 @@ impl Ollama {
 
         let url = format!("{}api/generate", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
@@ -70,9 +73,12 @@ impl Ollama {
 
         let url = format!("{}api/generate", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
diff --git a/src/generation/embeddings/mod.rs b/src/generation/embeddings/mod.rs
index b19b579..3c4918f 100644
--- a/src/generation/embeddings/mod.rs
+++ b/src/generation/embeddings/mod.rs
@@ -16,9 +16,12 @@ impl Ollama {
     ) -> crate::error::Result<GenerateEmbeddingsResponse> {
         let url = format!("{}api/embed", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
diff --git a/src/headers.rs b/src/headers.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40d49dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/headers.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+use crate::{IntoUrl, Ollama};
+
+pub use http::header::*;
+
+impl Ollama {
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// Panics if the host is not a valid URL or if the URL cannot have a port.
+    pub fn new_with_request_headers(host: impl IntoUrl, port: u16, headers: HeaderMap) -> Self {
+        let mut ollama = Self::new(host, port);
+        ollama.set_headers(Some(headers));
+
+        ollama
+    }
+
+    pub fn set_headers(&mut self, headers: Option<HeaderMap>) {
+        match headers {
+            Some(h) => self.request_headers = h,
+            None => self.request_headers = HeaderMap::new(),
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 6e3369c..3dfaf7a 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ use url::Url;
 
 pub mod error;
 pub mod generation;
+#[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+pub mod headers;
 #[cfg(feature = "chat-history")]
 pub mod history;
 pub mod models;
@@ -69,6 +71,8 @@ impl IntoUrlSealed for String {
 pub struct Ollama {
     pub(crate) url: Url,
     pub(crate) reqwest_client: reqwest::Client,
+    #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+    pub(crate) request_headers: reqwest::header::HeaderMap,
     #[cfg(feature = "chat-history")]
     pub(crate) messages_history: Option<WrappedMessageHistory>,
 }
@@ -145,6 +149,8 @@ impl Default for Ollama {
         Self {
             url: Url::parse("http://127.0.0.1:11434").unwrap(),
             reqwest_client: reqwest::Client::new(),
+            #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+            request_headers: reqwest::header::HeaderMap::new(),
             #[cfg(feature = "chat-history")]
             messages_history: None,
         }
diff --git a/src/models/copy.rs b/src/models/copy.rs
index 65b7c16..a868a92 100644
--- a/src/models/copy.rs
+++ b/src/models/copy.rs
@@ -16,9 +16,12 @@ impl Ollama {
 
         let url = format!("{}api/copy", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
diff --git a/src/models/create.rs b/src/models/create.rs
index eb580a7..7bc75df 100644
--- a/src/models/create.rs
+++ b/src/models/create.rs
@@ -23,9 +23,12 @@ impl Ollama {
 
         let url = format!("{}api/create", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
@@ -65,9 +68,12 @@ impl Ollama {
     ) -> crate::error::Result<CreateModelStatus> {
         let url = format!("{}api/create", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
diff --git a/src/models/delete.rs b/src/models/delete.rs
index ad25d76..d76786f 100644
--- a/src/models/delete.rs
+++ b/src/models/delete.rs
@@ -9,9 +9,12 @@ impl Ollama {
 
         let url = format!("{}api/delete", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .delete(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.delete(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
diff --git a/src/models/list_local.rs b/src/models/list_local.rs
index f0c86db..6dd86cb 100644
--- a/src/models/list_local.rs
+++ b/src/models/list_local.rs
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ use super::LocalModel;
 impl Ollama {
     pub async fn list_local_models(&self) -> crate::error::Result<Vec<LocalModel>> {
         let url = format!("{}api/tags", self.url_str());
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .get(url)
-            .send()
-            .await
-            .map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.get(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder.send().await.map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
 
         if !res.status().is_success() {
             return Err(res.text().await.unwrap_or_else(|e| e.to_string()).into());
diff --git a/src/models/pull.rs b/src/models/pull.rs
index b764a19..201ee3a 100644
--- a/src/models/pull.rs
+++ b/src/models/pull.rs
@@ -30,9 +30,12 @@ impl Ollama {
 
         let url = format!("{}api/pull", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
@@ -81,9 +84,12 @@ impl Ollama {
 
         let url = format!("{}api/pull", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
diff --git a/src/models/push.rs b/src/models/push.rs
index 9ec592e..e3a3264 100644
--- a/src/models/push.rs
+++ b/src/models/push.rs
@@ -30,9 +30,12 @@ impl Ollama {
 
         let url = format!("{}api/push", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
@@ -82,9 +85,12 @@ impl Ollama {
 
         let url = format!("{}api/push", self.url_str());
         let serialized = serde_json::to_string(&request).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await
diff --git a/src/models/show_info.rs b/src/models/show_info.rs
index e32083f..34db163 100644
--- a/src/models/show_info.rs
+++ b/src/models/show_info.rs
@@ -10,9 +10,12 @@ impl Ollama {
         let url = format!("{}api/show", self.url_str());
         let serialized =
             serde_json::to_string(&ModelInfoRequest { model_name }).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
-        let res = self
-            .reqwest_client
-            .post(url)
+        let builder = self.reqwest_client.post(url);
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "headers")]
+        let builder = builder.headers(self.request_headers.clone());
+
+        let res = builder
             .body(serialized)
             .send()
             .await