diff --git a/tests/test_base.py b/tests/test_base.py
index ef353fa..6a099de 100644
--- a/tests/test_base.py
+++ b/tests/test_base.py
@@ -38,4 +38,26 @@ def test_get_robotstxt(client):
     response = client.get("/robots.txt")
     assert response.status_code == 200
     assert response.headers['content-type'].startswith("text/plain")
-    assert response.text == "User-agent: *\nDisallow: /"
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+    assert response.text == "User-agent: *\nDisallow: /"
+
+
+def test_pna_preflight_grants_private_network(client):
+    """A CORS preflight carrying Access-Control-Request-Private-Network must be
+    answered with Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network: true so Chromium permits
+    public-origin pages to load data from an internal-network host."""
+    response = client.options(
+        "/some-target/some.zarr/.zattrs",
+        headers={
+            "Origin": "https://example.com",
+            "Access-Control-Request-Method": "GET",
+            "Access-Control-Request-Private-Network": "true",
+        },
+    )
+    assert response.headers.get("access-control-allow-private-network") == "true"
+
+
+def test_pna_header_absent_without_request(client):
+    """The PNA grant header must not leak onto responses that did not ask for it."""
+    response = client.get("/robots.txt")
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    assert "access-control-allow-private-network" not in response.headers
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diff --git a/x2s3/app.py b/x2s3/app.py
index 77d2c93..4ea1450 100644
--- a/x2s3/app.py
+++ b/x2s3/app.py
@@ -62,6 +62,55 @@ async def send_with_request_id(message):
         await self.app(scope, receive, send_with_request_id)
 
 
+class PrivateNetworkAccessMiddleware:
+    """Pure ASGI middleware that grants browser Private Network Access (PNA)
+    preflights.
+
+    Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge) send a CORS preflight before any request from
+    a public-origin page to a private-network address (e.g. an internal host
+    serving objects to a browser-based viewer). The preflight carries
+    `Access-Control-Request-Private-Network: true`, and the request only proceeds
+    if the response echoes `Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network: true`. Starlette's
+    CORSMiddleware does not emit this header, so without it Chromium blocks
+    public-origin pages from loading data hosted on an internal network.
+
+    (Firefox uses a separate user-permission model -- Local Network Access -- rather
+    than this header, so this neither helps nor harms Firefox.)
+
+    Registered outside CORSMiddleware so it can append the header to the preflight
+    response that CORSMiddleware generates. Implemented as pure ASGI so it only
+    touches response headers without re-wrapping the body. The header is added only
+    when the PNA request header is present, which the browser sends solely on
+    preflights, so it never appears on normal data responses.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, app):
+        self.app = app
+
+    async def __call__(self, scope, receive, send):
+        if scope["type"] != "http":
+            await self.app(scope, receive, send)
+            return
+
+        # ASGI lowercases header names; the request header value is the ASCII "true".
+        requested = any(
+            name == b"access-control-request-private-network"
+            and value.strip().lower() == b"true"
+            for name, value in scope.get("headers", [])
+        )
+        if not requested:
+            await self.app(scope, receive, send)
+            return
+
+        async def send_with_pna(message):
+            if message["type"] == "http.response.start":
+                headers = message.setdefault("headers", [])
+                headers.append((b"access-control-allow-private-network", b"true"))
+            await send(message)
+
+        await self.app(scope, receive, send_with_pna)
+
+
 def create_app(settings):
 
     @asynccontextmanager
@@ -141,6 +190,9 @@ async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
         allow_headers=["*"],
         expose_headers=["Range", "Content-Range", "x-amz-request-id"],
     )
+    # Echo Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network on PNA preflights. Added after
+    # (i.e. outside) CORSMiddleware so it wraps the preflight response CORS emits.
+    app.add_middleware(PrivateNetworkAccessMiddleware)
     app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory="static"), name="static")
     templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="templates")