Thank you for this fix. Good to have the reference to the thread.

--Hannes

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:43:06 0000, commits at source.squeak.org
<commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
> Levente Uzonyi uploaded a new version of Monticello to project The Trunk:
> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Monticello-ul.702.mcz
>
> ==================== Summary ====================
>
> Name: Monticello-ul.702
> Author: ul
> Time: 23 September 2019, 5:42:41.889162 pm
> UUID: a4a352f6-efcd-41ce-b716-f490b49229bb
> Ancestors: Monticello-ul.701
>
> - disable #useSharedWebClientInstance on Windows by default until the issue
> is resolved
>
> =============== Diff against Monticello-ul.701 ===============
>
> Item was changed:
>   ----- Method: MCHttpRepository class>>useSharedWebClientInstance (in
> category 'preferences') -----
>   useSharedWebClientInstance
>   	
>   	<preference: 'Use shared WebClient instance'
>   		category: 'Monticello'
>   		description: 'When true, use a shared WebClient instance to speed up
> downloads from MCHttpRepositories. Requires WebClient to be present.'
>   		type: #Boolean>
> + 	^UseSharedWebClientInstance ifNil: [
> + 		"The is some issue on Windows, so don't use it there by default. See
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2019-September/thread.html#203921
> for details."
> + 		Smalltalk os platformName ~= 'Win32' ]!
> - 	^UseSharedWebClientInstance ifNil: [ true ]!
>
>
>