httpBase option might be misleading

[gruntjs]

httpBase option might be misleading

[Arkni]

I don't know if you still need a help with this or not. But I'll try to answer some of the question for future ref.

My initial expectation was that setting the httpBase option to http://localhost:8000 (for example) would result in all the strings (not only found files) in the src option to be appended with this string and passed on to the PhantomJS browser.

That was made clear in README:

#### httpBase
Type: `String`
Default: `false`

Create URLs for the `src` files, all `src` files are prefixed with that base.

I thought that the following would provide the http://localhost:8000/test.html to the browser if the test.html was located in the www directory:

src: ['test.html'] (first example) will be expanded to an empty object. AFAIK src should be a valid glob pattern, that expand to path/to/file. So it will not work.

I also tried the following, which to me seems like the only way that the option could have worked without breaking the (what I suspect to be) Grunt.js convention of only listing source files that are found to actually exist:

There is an other rule that says httpBase should not be terminated with a / (see source code).

One thing you should know is, your configuration of your local web server (in your case you're using grunt-contrib-connect) doesn't matter to this plugin. So, you have to configure it correctly (adjust the base option) in order to work with this plugin.

Closing this for now, feel free to ask if you have followup questions.