AppSigner ZIP is uncompressed

[tom]

I noticed that when AppSigner zips up the application files, it uses 0% compression, so the zip is about 4x larger than if it used max compression.

OK, so no big deal, but the NSTL website seems to be constantly bogged down, and we'd like to reduce the load by re-zipping the app and submitting the smaller zip to NSTL. The NSTL server apparently does a directory scan of the zip file to ensure the minimum files were submitted in the proper directory structure, and the MIF/MOD/SIG file names match the zip file name. I don't know what else it does, but maybe it extracts the signature and checks that it matches too.

I suspect that AppSigner is using 0% compression just because it doesn't have any codecs, but maybe the NSTL server doesn't either.

Does anyone know if the NSTL server can deal with compressed zip files?

[tom]

BTW, we've found that the NSTL server rejects your zip if: you put a random file in the root directory of the zip,
your zip filename is different from your mod/mif filename.
--t