How big can a user agent string get?

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Published on 2009-03-17T16:10:57Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 1:53 UTC
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If you were going to store a user agent in a database, how large would you accomdate for?

I found this technet article 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.

I know I can parse the string out and break it down but I'd rather not.

EDIT
Based on this Blog IE9 will be changing to send the short UA string. This is a good change.

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