diff --git a/Meta/CMake/ca_certificates_data.cmake b/Meta/CMake/ca_certificates_data.cmake
index fed998b5fb7..35579ee9269 100644
--- a/Meta/CMake/ca_certificates_data.cmake
+++ b/Meta/CMake/ca_certificates_data.cmake
@@ -13,7 +13,11 @@ set(CACERT_INSTALL_FILE cacert.pem)
 if (ENABLE_CACERT_DOWNLOAD)
     remove_path_if_version_changed("${CACERT_VERSION}" "${CACERT_VERSION_FILE}" "${CACERT_PATH}")
 
-    download_file("${CACERT_URL}" "${CACERT_PATH}/${CACERT_FILE}" SHA256 "${CACERT_SHA256}")
+    if (ENABLE_NETWORK_DOWNLOADS)
+        download_file("${CACERT_URL}" "${CACERT_PATH}/${CACERT_FILE}" SHA256 "${CACERT_SHA256}")
+    else()
+        message(STATUS "Skipping download of ${CACERT_URL}, expecting it to have been downloaded to ${CACERT_PATH}")
+    endif()
 
     if (NOT "${CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX}" STREQUAL "")
         set(CACERT_INSTALL_PATH ${CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX}/etc/${CACERT_INSTALL_FILE})
diff --git a/Meta/CMake/public_suffix.cmake b/Meta/CMake/public_suffix.cmake
index e37dee1f07c..42a8377692f 100644
--- a/Meta/CMake/public_suffix.cmake
+++ b/Meta/CMake/public_suffix.cmake
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ if (ENABLE_PUBLIC_SUFFIX_DOWNLOAD)
     set(PUBLIC_SUFFIX_DATA_HEADER PublicSuffixData.h)
     set(PUBLIC_SUFFIX_DATA_IMPLEMENTATION PublicSuffixData.cpp)
 
-    download_file("${PUBLIC_SUFFIX_DATA_URL}" "${PUBLIC_SUFFIX_DATA_PATH}")
+    if (ENABLE_NETWORK_DOWNLOADS)
+        download_file("${PUBLIC_SUFFIX_DATA_URL}" "${PUBLIC_SUFFIX_DATA_PATH}")
+    else()
+        message(STATUS "Skipping download of ${PUBLIC_SUFFIX_DATA_URL}, expecting it to be in ${PUBLIC_SUFFIX_DATA_PATH}")
+    endif()
     invoke_generator(
         "PublicSuffixData"
         Lagom::GeneratePublicSuffixData