diff --git a/lib/middleware/rest.js b/lib/middleware/rest.js
index 5e91c7f4a..3a6f557d6 100644
--- a/lib/middleware/rest.js
+++ b/lib/middleware/rest.js
@@ -12,20 +12,21 @@ module.exports = rest;
 
 /**
  * Expose models over REST.
- * 
+ *
  * For example:
  * ```js
  * app.use(loopback.rest());
  * ```
  * For more information, see [Exposing models over a REST API](http://docs.strongloop.com/display/DOC/Exposing+models+over+a+REST+API).
  * @header loopback.rest()
+ * @param {Object} options REST handler options.
  */
 
-function rest() {
+function rest(options) {
   var tokenParser = null;
   return function (req, res, next) {
     var app = req.app;
-    var handler = app.handler('rest');
+    var handler = app.handler('rest', options);
 
     if(req.url === '/routes') {
       res.send(handler.adapter.allRoutes());
diff --git a/test/rest.middleware.test.js b/test/rest.middleware.test.js
index 5b10302fd..809a4743d 100644
--- a/test/rest.middleware.test.js
+++ b/test/rest.middleware.test.js
@@ -75,6 +75,16 @@ describe('loopback.rest', function() {
     });
   });
 
+  it('should support options', function(done) {
+    app.model(MyModel);
+    var supportedTypes = ['json', 'application/javascript', 'text/javascript'];
+    app.use(loopback.rest({supportedTypes: supportedTypes}));
+    request(app).get('/mymodels')
+      .set('Accept', 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8')
+      .expect('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8')
+      .expect(200, done);
+  });
+
   it('includes loopback.token when necessary', function(done) {
     givenUserModelWithAuth();
     app.enableAuth();