Window.opener

HI,
We've got an external ITS application with a popup window to call.
we called it with:
var w1=window.open('', '', windowprops);
w1.document.write("<html><head></head><body>Hello World</body></html>");
and it worked well.
But on internal ITS it doesn't work anymore. (it creates an empty IE6-page - on Firefox it still works)
any suggestions?
A similar problem is also, that (from the popup window) we cannot receive data out of the source page e.g.:
document.getElementById('abc').innerHTML = this.opener.document.getElementById('def').value;
"this" means the popup window object.
this.opener gives an empty object (and thats the problem!)
This problem occurs in both browsers, IE6 and FF.
We use SAP ECC 6.0.
Message was edited by:
Ralph Schillein

no, sorry.
That was the wrong OSS number. I found the right one, and we patched our system accordingly - but the problem still persists.
any other suggestions?
thanks,
ralph

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