karma E2E testing against a C# MVC app

Question

Ok, So I'm testing a web app with an angularjs front end and an asp.net mvc backend server and I'm having some issues when browsing to an asp.net controller action with my tests.

sample test code

it('clicking this anchor button should direct the user to an mvc action powered view', function() {
    browser().navigateTo('http:localhost:22222//angularpoweredindexview/');
    element('a').click();
    expect(browser().location().url()).toBe('/Controller/Action');
});

The scenario test runner just hangs at browser navigate to browser navigate to 'http://localhost:22222/Controller/Action'

I'm stumped on this at the moment, does anyone have any ideas.