BUG: Using NewWindow or NewWindow2 to Always Navigate in the Same Window Fails in Some Instances

Symptoms in Internet Explorer 5.5

• If you click a link that performs a window.open method to browse to a new site, you can successfully browse to the site the first time; however, it fails the second time.
• If you right-click a link and then click Open in New Window, it works the first time but does not work on subsequent attempts.

• If you click a link that performs a window.open method to browse to a new site, you receive an "unspecified error" error message.
• If you right-click a link and then click Open in New Window, it does not navigate at all.

Symptoms in Internet Explorer 5

• If you click a link that performs a window.open method to browse to a new site, it does not navigate at all.
• If you right-click a link and then click Open in New Window, you receive an "unspecified error" error message.

Symptoms in Internet Explorer 4.x

• If click a link that performs a window.open method to browse to a new site, it does not navigate.
• If you right-click a link and then click Open in New Window, you receive an "unspecified error" error message.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

void CDWebBrowserEvents::OnNewWindow(BSTR URL, long Flags, BSTR TargetFrameName, 
				 VARIANT* PostData, BSTR Headers, BOOL FAR* Processed)
{
	if (m_Browser) {
	    COleVariant varEmpty;
	    *Processed = TRUE;
	    m_Browser->Navigate((LPCSTR)URL, &varEmpty, &varEmpty, &varEmpty, &varEmpty);
	}
}

				

void CIEDlg::OnNewWindow2(LPDISPATCH FAR* ppDisp, BOOL FAR* Cancel) 
{

	IUnknown* pUnk = m_Browser.GetControlUnknown();
	if (pUnk)
	{
		IDispatch* pDisp = NULL;
		HRESULT hr = pUnk->QueryInterface(IID_IDispatch, (void**)&pDisp);

		if (SUCCEEDED(hr) && pDisp)
			*ppDisp = pDisp;
	}
}