Issue: directConnect option not passed in correctly.

[wawyed]

directConnect option support was added in this commit.

rubenv@86d2f91

Although, the commit added the option as a string, even though in the protractor docs: https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/referenceConf.js, the option is specified as boolean, so no matter what you set that option is always evaluated to true ( since any non empty string is true ).

[sonata82]

It's even worse: the current code for reading of parameters prevents any parameter from having the value false:

if (a in opts.args || grunt.option(a)) {
    // this will never happen for options which have a `false` value
    args.push('--'+a, grunt.option(a) || opts.args[a]);
}

[readme42]

Thats true.

directConnect: false results to
Error: browserName (phantomjs) is not supported with directConnect.