diff --git a/flask/views.py b/flask/views.py
index 848ccb0b..b3027970 100644
--- a/flask/views.py
+++ b/flask/views.py
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ class View(object):
     #: A list of methods this view can handle.
     methods = None
 
+    #: Setting this disables or force-enables the automatic options handling.
+    provide_automatic_options = None
+
     #: The canonical way to decorate class-based views is to decorate the
     #: return value of as_view().  However since this moves parts of the
     #: logic from the class declaration to the place where it's hooked
@@ -99,6 +102,7 @@ class View(object):
         view.__doc__ = cls.__doc__
         view.__module__ = cls.__module__
         view.methods = cls.methods
+        view.provide_automatic_options = cls.provide_automatic_options
         return view
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_views.py b/tests/test_views.py
index 65981dbd..896880c0 100644
--- a/tests/test_views.py
+++ b/tests/test_views.py
@@ -109,6 +109,43 @@ def test_view_decorators():
     assert rv.headers['X-Parachute'] == 'awesome'
     assert rv.data == b'Awesome'
 
+def test_view_provide_automatic_options_attr():
+    app = flask.Flask(__name__)
+
+    class Index1(flask.views.View):
+        provide_automatic_options = False
+        def dispatch_request(self):
+            return 'Hello World!'
+
+    app.add_url_rule('/', view_func=Index1.as_view('index'))
+    c = app.test_client()
+    rv = c.open('/', method='OPTIONS')
+    assert rv.status_code == 405
+
+    app = flask.Flask(__name__)
+
+    class Index2(flask.views.View):
+        methods = ['OPTIONS']
+        provide_automatic_options = True
+        def dispatch_request(self):
+            return 'Hello World!'
+
+    app.add_url_rule('/', view_func=Index2.as_view('index'))
+    c = app.test_client()
+    rv = c.open('/', method='OPTIONS')
+    assert sorted(rv.allow) == ['OPTIONS']
+
+    app = flask.Flask(__name__)
+
+    class Index3(flask.views.View):
+        def dispatch_request(self):
+            return 'Hello World!'
+
+    app.add_url_rule('/', view_func=Index3.as_view('index'))
+    c = app.test_client()
+    rv = c.open('/', method='OPTIONS')
+    assert 'OPTIONS' in rv.allow
+
 def test_implicit_head():
     app = flask.Flask(__name__)