diff --git a/dist/index.js b/dist/index.js
index 1f1fcdc..dce1d29 100644
--- a/dist/index.js
+++ b/dist/index.js
@@ -95448,9 +95448,8 @@ exports.HTTPError = HTTPError;
 const ensureStatus = (expectedStatus) => {
     return (response) => {
         if (response.status !== expectedStatus) {
-            const e = response.text();
             throw new HTTPError({
-                message: `Error fetching ${response.url} - expected ${expectedStatus}, received ${response.status}: ${e}`,
+                message: `Error fetching ${response.url} - expected ${expectedStatus}, received ${response.status}`,
                 status: response.status,
             });
         }
@@ -95505,21 +95504,17 @@ const fetchWithRetry = async (url, options = {}) => {
         const logRetry = (reason) => {
             proc_log_1.log.http('fetch', `${options.method} ${url} attempt ${attemptNum} failed with ${reason}`);
         };
-        proc_log_1.log.http('fetch', `${options.method} ${url}`);
         const response = await (0, make_fetch_happen_1.default)(url, {
             ...options,
             retry: false, // We're handling retries ourselves
         }).catch((reason) => {
-            proc_log_1.log.http('fetch-response', 'caught error', reason);
-            // logRetry(reason);
+            logRetry(reason);
             return retry(reason);
         });
         if (retryable(response.status)) {
-            proc_log_1.log.http('fetch-response', 'retryable error', response.status, response.text());
-            // logRetry(response.status);
+            logRetry(response.status);
             return retry(response);
         }
-        proc_log_1.log.http('fetch-response', response.status);
         return response;
     }, retryOpts(options.retry)).catch((err) => {
         // If we got an actual error, throw it
@@ -95559,7 +95554,6 @@ const retryOpts = (retry) => {
         return { retries: 0, ...retry };
     }
 };
-const base64Encode = (str) => Buffer.from(str).toString('base64');
 exports["default"] = fetchWithRetry;
 
 
@@ -95603,7 +95597,12 @@ const constants_1 = __nccwpck_require__(90204);
 const error_1 = __nccwpck_require__(34031);
 const registry_1 = __nccwpck_require__(26198);
 const DOCKER_DEFAULT_REGISTRY = 'registry-1.docker.io';
+// https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/main/manifest.md#guidance-for-an-empty-descriptor
 const EMPTY_BLOB = Buffer.from('{}');
+// Certain registries have been found to have issues with the OCI-standard
+// empty blob (i.e. `{}`) when uploading an OCI artifact manifest. To work
+// around this, we use a non-standard empty blob that (containing an extra
+// white space character) that seems to wortk with these registries.
 const ALT_EMPTY_BLOB = Buffer.from('{ }');
 class OCIImage {
     constructor(image, creds, opts) {
@@ -95628,7 +95627,7 @@ class OCIImage {
             // Upload the artifact blob
             const artifactBlob = await __classPrivateFieldGet(this, _OCIImage_client, "f").uploadBlob(opts.artifact);
             // Upload the empty blob (needed for the manifest config)
-            const emptyBlob = await __classPrivateFieldGet(this, _OCIImage_client, "f").uploadBlob(ALT_EMPTY_BLOB);
+            const emptyBlob = await __classPrivateFieldGet(this, _OCIImage_client, "f").uploadBlob(opts.compatibility ? ALT_EMPTY_BLOB : EMPTY_BLOB);
             // Construct artifact manifest
             const manifest = buildManifest({
                 artifactDescriptor: { ...artifactBlob, mediaType: opts.mediaType },
@@ -95874,7 +95873,6 @@ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
 */
 const node_crypto_1 = __importDefault(__nccwpck_require__(77598));
-const proc_log_1 = __nccwpck_require__(6457);
 const constants_1 = __nccwpck_require__(90204);
 const credentials_1 = __nccwpck_require__(31855);
 const error_1 = __nccwpck_require__(34031);
@@ -95915,7 +95913,6 @@ class RegistryClient {
         if (probeResponse.status === 200) {
             return;
         }
-        proc_log_1.log.http('fetch', `${probeResponse.status} ${JSON.stringify(probeResponse.headers.raw())}`);
         // If we still need to authenticate, we must have credentials
         const { username, password } = creds;
         if (!username || !password) {
@@ -96021,13 +96018,7 @@ class RegistryClient {
         if (options.etag) {
             headers[constants_1.HEADER_IF_MATCH] = options.etag;
         }
-        const response = await __classPrivateFieldGet(this, _RegistryClient_fetch, "f").call(this, `${__classPrivateFieldGet(this, _RegistryClient_baseURL, "f")}/v2/${__classPrivateFieldGet(this, _RegistryClient_repository, "f")}/manifests/${reference}`, { method: 'PUT', body: manifest, headers })
-            .then(async (r) => {
-            const e = await r.text();
-            proc_log_1.log.http('message', e);
-            return r;
-        })
-            .then((0, error_1.ensureStatus)(201));
+        const response = await __classPrivateFieldGet(this, _RegistryClient_fetch, "f").call(this, `${__classPrivateFieldGet(this, _RegistryClient_baseURL, "f")}/v2/${__classPrivateFieldGet(this, _RegistryClient_repository, "f")}/manifests/${reference}`, { method: 'PUT', body: manifest, headers }).then((0, error_1.ensureStatus)(201));
         const subjectDigest = response.headers.get(constants_1.HEADER_OCI_SUBJECT) || undefined;
         return {
             mediaType: contentType,
@@ -96130,6 +96121,7 @@ const createAttestation = async (subjects, predicate, opts) => {
                 'dev.sigstore.bundle.content': 'dsse-envelope',
                 'dev.sigstore.bundle.predicateType': predicate.type
             },
+            compatibility: opts.ociCompatMode,
             fetchOpts: { timeout: OCI_TIMEOUT, retry: OCI_RETRY }
         });
         // Add the attestation's digest to the result
@@ -96210,7 +96202,8 @@ const inputs = {
     showSummary: core.getBooleanInput('show-summary'),
     githubToken: core.getInput('github-token'),
     // undocumented -- not part of public interface
-    privateSigning: ['true', 'True', 'TRUE', '1'].includes(core.getInput('private-signing'))
+    privateSigning: ['true', 'True', 'TRUE', '1'].includes(core.getInput('private-signing')),
+    ociCompatMode: ['true', 'True', 'TRUE', '1'].includes(core.getInput('oci-compatibility-mode'))
 };
 /* eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-floating-promises */
 (0, main_1.run)(inputs);
@@ -96306,7 +96299,8 @@ async function run(inputs) {
         const att = await (0, attest_1.createAttestation)(subjects, predicate, {
             sigstoreInstance,
             pushToRegistry: inputs.pushToRegistry,
-            githubToken: inputs.githubToken
+            githubToken: inputs.githubToken,
+            ociCompatMode: inputs.ociCompatMode
         });
         logAttestation(subjects, att, sigstoreInstance);
         // Write attestation bundle to output file