Xfa.host.gotoURL : Mixed results using Acrobat Pro

In my form, I've got a button that executes an xfa.host.gotoURL on the value of another field, which has a url (www.aetna.com). When you click the button, it simply executes:
xfa.host.gotoURL(WebAddress.rawValue);
It works fine in both designer and Reader, but in Acrobat Pro, it doesnt do anything. No errors, no status boxes, nothing. Has anyone else seen or experienced anything like this? Is there another way to popup a window/navigate to a website other than xfa.host.gotoURL?

When you use Acrobat as a stand alone application, you will get this behavior.I think what happended is when you try to open a web page, HTML is being sent to Acrobat and it does not know what to do with it. If you want this to work to view the page you will have to use Acrobat inside of a browser. Now the browser recieves the HTML and knows how to interpret it.

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