Has anyone figured this one out? If somebody posted a solution, etc., please disregard this message.
It seems to be a combination of VM and Squeak networking problem. The problem shows up on NT, but not so much on Macs or UNIX.
The culprit seems to be Socket>>waitForDataUntil: method (called from HTTPSocket>>getResponseUpTo: or PWS>>readRequest). Even if it succeeds, it seems to take an aweful lot of time to complete. We commented it out, and things work faster.
Bolot