How big can a user agent string get?

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HTTP specification does not limit length of headers at all.
However web-servers do limit header size they accept, throwing 413 Entity Too Large if it exceeds.

Depending on web-server and their settings these limits vary from 4KB to 64KB (total for all headers).

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