IE in WinXP SP2 displays status bar if the URL has DNS suffix even tho

IE in WinXP SP2 displays status bar if the URL has DNS suffix even though t

[srivalli9]

Hi,

I have an ASP.NET application that opens windows using window.open() javascript command. It turns off the status bar from the script as follows...
window.open(URL, null,'statusbar=0,width=200,height=200');
The problem is that the status bar is still displayed even though the script turned it off if
1. the URL has DNS suffix or
2. the URL has IP address
The status bar is NOT displayed in all other cases. That is IE is respecting the settings from the script this time.

The client machine has IE 6, Windows XP OS with service pack 2.

I have come to know from the following web sites that with SP2, IE no longer allows turning the status bar off from the script.
[developer.mozilla.org...]
[blogs.msdn.com...]
[msdn.microsoft.com...]
[microsoft.com...]

But I'm wondering why it does not show the status bar when the URL doesn't have the DNS suffix? Why isn't it consistent?

Any ideas?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
-Srivalli.

[encyclo]

I'm slightly surprised by this, although I admit that I rarely use pop-ups so I can't be considered an expert. I thought before now that the new behavior for IE6 in Windows XP Service Pack 2 was that the status bar was a fixed feature that you can no longer turn off:

From: [msdn.microsoft.com...]

Expect the status bar to be present, and code for it. The status bar will be on by default and is 20-25 pixels in height.

Is your test PC set up with the defult security settings for IE?