WCT (as of version 3.1) will complain that "each star ( * ) in the url pattern must start with a dot", whereas Heritrix is totally fine with it, since it supports the full Perl regex language.
This validation is unnecessarily limiting and will cause problems for people using more advanced block patterns when they upgrade to 3.1.
If you're using a block URL regex like this
^[^/]+://[^/]*(google).*
WCT (as of version 3.1) will complain that "each star ( * ) in the url pattern must start with a dot", whereas Heritrix is totally fine with it, since it supports the full Perl regex language.
This validation is unnecessarily limiting and will cause problems for people using more advanced block patterns when they upgrade to 3.1.