diff --git a/direct/src/distributed/ConnectionRepository.py b/direct/src/distributed/ConnectionRepository.py
index 573e530f3c..7817626a8f 100644
--- a/direct/src/distributed/ConnectionRepository.py
+++ b/direct/src/distributed/ConnectionRepository.py
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ class ConnectionRepository(
 
         self.config = config
 
-        self.setVerbose(self.config.GetBool('verbose-repository', 0))
+        if hasattr(self, 'setVerbose'):
+            self.setVerbose(self.config.GetBool('verbose-repository', 0))
 
         # Set this to 'http' to establish a connection to the server
         # using the HTTPClient interface, which ultimately uses the