I placed trapdoors at eye level in front of a portal in the nether that was blocked from the other side. I opened one of them to enter the portal. Upon return from the overworld portal I wasn't able to leave the portal despite the trap door being open. I tried to open the other trap door. I was able to open it however when I tried to leave it wouldn't let me. I was able to destroy blocks around the portal but was only able to move within the portal frame and was unable to escape it. I could trigger a resetting event where I would fall through the portal and nether when I shot my foot with a arrow. This cleared the animation but didn't allow me to move.
Environment
Windows 7 Pro with nVidia 7600GT driver 306.97. Java v7 update 7.
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Sorry I didn't see the message for a while. I just recreated it in the latest release (not the latest snapshot) on the same world and same portal and it was fine so it was fixed.
Unable to reproduce in 12w49a. Please post a screenshot of your nether portal-trapdoor setup.