diff -r 01ef2159b12a -r d7eaba5831d5 scripts/functions
--- a/scripts/functions	Fri Nov 15 21:16:52 2013 +0100
+++ b/scripts/functions	Fri May 09 19:07:02 2014 -0700
@@ -572,9 +572,14 @@
     # not easy to detect them, so force a global ${CT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT}-second
     # timeout.
     # For curl, no good progress indicator is available. So, be silent.
+    if [ ${CT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT} = -1 ]; then
+        T=
+    else
+        T="-T ${CT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT}"
+    fi
     if CT_DoExecLog ALL wget --passive-ftp --tries=3 -nc    \
                              --progress=dot:binary          \
-                             -T ${CT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT}       \
+                             ${T}                           \
                              -O "${tmp}"                    \
                              "${url}"
     then