Problems with HTTP-POST action

I'm currently with micfo and I've run into a curious problem with HTTP-POSTs on the server. At work, I have a port access restricted connection. Specifically, only the HTTP, HTTPS, POP3, IMAP, and SSH ports are available. On this connection, when I try to use a posting form with a textarea, and I put more than about 700 characters in the textarea, the action never completes (my browser just kind of hangs.)

The weird part is this doesn't happen on another connection, or when I put the form on a different server and try it there through the restricted connection. This has me convinced that there is some way to fix the problem. Micfo says that, because they don't run into the problem and it is unique to my connection, there's nothing they can do. I, however, can't change my work connection ( I have no control over it.)

Has anyone run into this kind of situation before? Any advice, short of changing servers (which I still can do before the 13th of November, without having to worry about the cost.)

 

 

 

 

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