Posting a textarea with html content fails `No data received` - post

ok guys,
so here's another weird one:
i have the following form:
<form method="post" autocomplete="off">
<fieldset>
<legend>Edit article</legend>
<label>Description<textarea name="txtDescription"><%=article.Description %></textarea></label>
<label>Content<textarea name="txtContent"><%=article.Content %></textarea></label>
</fieldset>
<input type="submit" class="fr" value="save changes" />
</form>
there is nothing on the code behind page beside getting the article.
the page loads very fast, under 1 second, with that data in the textarea's.
when i try to submit this form, the page takes forever to load (actualy, it does not load at all, but fails after a few minuets with No data received.
the textarea content is just some html, not large (about 2-4kb each text area)
i have tried adding enctype="multipart/form-data", with no success, the same thing happens.
i have managed to narrow it down to the txtContent textarea, (i removed the description textarea)
and the page fails.
what makes this even worse is that if i open the page in the browser on my server,
it works with no problem, i can post, and it is all working as it should.
if i try to access the page from a remote machine, the post fails.
Anyone has any idea as to what happens here?
EDIT: just to make sure, i have created a simple HTML document with the following in it:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Dashboard</li>
<li>Articles</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
<div id="content">
<form method="post" action="test.html">
<fieldset>
<legend>Edit article</legend>
<label>Content<textarea name="txtcontent"></textarea></label>
</fieldset>
<input type="submit" class="fr" value="save changes" />
</form>
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</body>
</html>
this still fails.
EDIT: the test code shown here is the minimal code that is not working.
the actual form is larger, and if i remove the txtcontent textarea from the form,
the form submits with no problem, including the description textarea.
EDIT: Content-Length: 1555 / Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
EDIT: i have uninstalled and reinstalled iis, and re-registered .NET
the problem is still there.

A few things to check....
What language are you using, e.g. ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC and version?
I can see you are using
<form method="post" autocomplete="off">
In ASP.NET web forms, you would normally declare the form tag as
<form runat="server">
In ASP.NET MVC it would be similar to
#using(Html.BeginForm(......))
{
}
The other issue is you are posting HTML tags, by default ASP.NET will not allow this due to security reasons. Lookup XSS and be sure to understand the risks before disabling this feature.

Final note:
i have uninstalled IIS, Re-Installed IIS, Re-Registered .net framework,
and it seems to work fine now.
the reason for the original problem, unknown

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Checkbox checked state not changing in JQuery Mobile [closed]

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and this is my <form> in my html:
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#Html.TextBox("userName")
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<li>
#Html.Label("Password")
#Html.Password("password")
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}
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Your browser may has some problem with jquery mobile and if you are using chrome you can see the errors (if exist) using development tools of google chrome (to open it right click on page and click on inspect element).
update
your update give us an output file. I copied it in jsfiddle and it worked too. the problem isn't from HTML, JqueryMobile or another programming tools. I think it's because of your system.

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<br />
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</div>
<br />
}
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{
return Redirect("/PersonsReport.aspx");
}

Can Struts 2 handle 3 action class calls at the same time

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<div class="col1">
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<div class="curved section_content">
<div id="sub_header" class="curved_top">
<h2>
<s:text name="ft.history.title.details" />
</h2>
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Struts2 can handle significantly more than three simultaneous requests. There are many large, scalable applications using the Struts2 framework.
The issue is most likely related to your code.
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Users requesting GET when my form method is POST

I'm seeing an intermittent problem on our web site. Some users are trying to submit forms via GET when my form method is POST. The errors always come from IE users. I have noticed a few UA strings have a reference to "yie8," which I am assuming is Yahoo's IE8 package. I think the Yahoo! toolbar might have something against me, but I can't replicate the problem on IE7 with the toolbar installed. The problem happens not only on this form, but various others, many of which are submitted via Ajax using the jQuery form plugin load() function with an object parameter passed. This example isn't one of those.
A simple fix would be to just take out all of my AcceptVerb() attributes, but that would be totally lame. Anyone ever come across something like this or have any ideas with dealing with it?
Here's an example exception log entry.
We've got a Web problem! Exception thrown:
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Method: GET
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UserAgent: IE 7 (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0;Windows NT 5.1;.NET CLR 1.1.4322;.NET CLR 2.0.50727;.NET CLR 3.0.04506.30))
Exception: System.Web.HttpException
Message: A public action method 'ResetPassword' could not be found on controller 'MyApp.Controllers.UserController'.
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<label> </label>
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