title: How big can a user agent string get?
body: <p>If you were going to store a user agent in a database, how large would you accomdate for?</p>
  
  <p>I found this <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496341.aspx" rel="noreferrer">technet article</a> which recommends keeping UA under 200. It doesn't look like this is defined in the HTTP specification at least not that I found. My UA is already 149 characters, and it seems like each version of .NET will be adding to it.</p>
  
  <p>I know I can parse the string out and break it down but I'd rather not.</p>
  
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  <p><strong>EDIT</strong><br>
  Based on this <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/23/introducing-ie9-s-user-agent-string.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Blog</a> IE9 will be changing to send the short UA string. This is a good change.</p>
  
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