diff --git a/lib/libwebsockets.h b/lib/libwebsockets.h
index 82a47f56..35361252 100644
--- a/lib/libwebsockets.h
+++ b/lib/libwebsockets.h
@@ -1556,11 +1556,25 @@ lws_b64_decode_string(const char *in, char *out, int out_size);
 LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN const char *
 lws_get_library_version(void);
 
-/* access to headers... only valid while headers valid */
+/*
+ *  Access to http headers
+ *
+ *  In lws the client http headers are temporarily malloc'd only for the
+ *  duration of the http part of the handshake.  It's because in most cases,
+ *  the header content is ignored for the whole rest of the connection lifetime
+ *  and would then just be taking up space needlessly.
+ *
+ *  During LWS_CALLBACK_HTTP when the URI path is delivered is the last time
+ *  the http headers are still allocated, you can use these apis then to
+ *  look at and copy out interesting header content (cookies, etc)
+ */
 
 LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
 lws_hdr_total_length(struct lws *wsi, enum lws_token_indexes h);
 
+LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
+lws_hdr_fragment_length(struct lws *wsi, enum lws_token_indexes h, int frag_idx);
+
 /*
  * copies the whole, aggregated header, even if it was delivered in
  * several actual headers piece by piece
@@ -1577,6 +1591,7 @@ LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN int
 lws_hdr_copy_fragment(struct lws *wsi, char *dest, int len,
 		      enum lws_token_indexes h, int frag_idx);
 
+
 /* get the active file operations struct */
 LWS_VISIBLE LWS_EXTERN struct lws_plat_file_ops *
 lws_get_fops(struct lws_context *context);
diff --git a/lib/parsers.c b/lib/parsers.c
index 2b63fae5..18037d0d 100644
--- a/lib/parsers.c
+++ b/lib/parsers.c
@@ -81,6 +81,23 @@ int lws_free_header_table(struct lws *wsi)
 	return 0;
 };
 
+LWS_VISIBLE int
+lws_hdr_fragment_length(struct lws *wsi, enum lws_token_indexes h, int frag_idx)
+{
+	int n;
+
+	n = wsi->u.hdr.ah->frag_index[h];
+	if (!n)
+		return 0;
+	do {
+		if (!frag_idx)
+			return wsi->u.hdr.ah->frags[n].len;
+		n = wsi->u.hdr.ah->frags[n].nfrag;
+	} while (frag_idx-- && n);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 LWS_VISIBLE int lws_hdr_total_length(struct lws *wsi, enum lws_token_indexes h)
 {
 	int n;