I've got a client that has a website that lets him add news articles
through a special admin interface (using PHP and MySQL).  The form
that accepts these articles is a very basic form with a couple of text
fields for the article title and category, and a large textarea field
that accepts the body of the article.  The article body may be quite
large (30,000 characters isn't unusual).  The form is submitted using
the POST method.

The client is complaining that when he fills in the article and
submits the form that his browser appears to do nothing for a few
minutes and then it comes back with a page not found error.

The server that is hosting the website is in Wellington.  Everything
appears to be working ok for me in Auckland.  While the client was in
NZ it worked fine, but now he is in Malaysia and the problem has
started.

I'm thinking that it's possible that his connection is slow and there
is some sort of timeout happening somewhere.  I assume that browsers
only wait so long for a response after submitting a form and then give
an error, is this correct?  Is this timeout something that can be
altered?  Or is it possible that Apache has some sort of timeout and
is closing the connection?

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