diff --git a/common/src/js/core/scripts/selenium-api.js b/common/src/js/core/scripts/selenium-api.js
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/common/src/js/core/scripts/selenium-api.js
+++ b/common/src/js/core/scripts/selenium-api.js
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ Selenium.prototype.doOpen = function(url, ignoreResponseCode) {
    * @param ignoreResponseCode (optional) turn off ajax head request functionality
    *
    */
-    if (ignoreResponseCode == null) {
+    if (ignoreResponseCode == null || ignoreResponseCode.length == 0) {
         this.browserbot.ignoreResponseCode = true;
     } else if (ignoreResponseCode.toLowerCase() == "true") {
         this.browserbot.ignoreResponseCode = true;
AdamGoucher - really fixing the ignoring of the extra check on 'open' if there is nothing being passed in. i still think that this needs to be changed at some point to invert the logic so that rather than setting something to ignore that something should be set to turn on


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