30th April 2025

Zipper 2.0.0 - a new version of Zipper deployed

CREODIAS users can now use a new version of the Zipper application that allows to download Earth Observation products from EO Data repository. Products can be in a form of zipped or single files and can be delivered by Zipper via https protocol.

Zipper 2.0.0 has been developed in a different programming language than previously, which brings about improvements performance, scalability, and maintainability, while keeping the user-facing API consistent.

What's new?

  • New technology that better handles concurrency, and ensures faster response times - download performance is improved by more than 50%, up to 1 Gbps
  • Asynchronous download of small files, which improves responsiveness
  • New custom ZIP library with proper support for **zip64** format
  • Improved HTTP status code consistency (e.g., 403 for invalid URLs or exceeded file sizes, 422 for invalid UUIDs)
  • Better handling of streaming errors without corrupting the response.

Read more in this document: "How to Download a Single Product Using Data Explorer on CREODIAS Cloud".