diff --git a/src/progress.c b/src/progress.c
index 553ec1ba..d8b57e36 100644
--- a/src/progress.c
+++ b/src/progress.c
@@ -499,6 +499,7 @@ dot_finish (void *progress, double dltime)
 static void
 dot_set_params (const char *params)
 {
+  current_impl->interactive = false;
   if (!params || !*params)
     params = opt.dot_style;
 
@@ -1365,6 +1366,13 @@ display_image (char *buf)
 static void
 bar_set_params (const char *params)
 {
+/* if run_with_timeout() will be used for read, needs to disable interactive bar,
+   or  on every timeout(1s) we will have 'retry' with error "decryption failed" */
+#if (defined(HAVE_LIBSSL) || defined(HAVE_LIBSSL32)) && defined(OPENSSL_RUN_WITHTIMEOUT)
+  current_impl->interactive = false;
+#else
+  current_impl->interactive = true;
+#endif
   if (params)
     {
       for (const char *param = params; *param; )
diff --git a/src/retr.c b/src/retr.c
index 3fa83bcb..32b29868 100644
--- a/src/retr.c
+++ b/src/retr.c
@@ -425,7 +425,8 @@ fd_read_body (const char *downloaded_filename, int fd, FILE *out, wgint toread,
                 {
                   /* Don't let total idle time exceed read timeout. */
                   tmout = opt.read_timeout - waittm;
-                  if (tmout < 0)
+                  /* if 0 fd_read can be 'blocked read' */
+                  if (tmout <= 0)
                     {
                       /* We've already exceeded the timeout. */
                       ret = -1, errno = ETIMEDOUT;