What is the average size of an HTTP request/response header?

Question

I am working with an embedded platform that has 16MB of RAM only. And I need to deep packet filter HTTP streams. To prevent a Denial of Service attack on the device I\'d lik

Answer 1

From Google's SPDY research project whitepaper

Uncompressed request and response headers. Request headers today vary in size from ~200 bytes to over 2KB. As applications use more cookies and user agents expand features, typical header sizes of 700-800 bytes is common.