Button URL Links work in SWF, but not on HTML Page? help please

i have a problem.

i have a button on my flash clip, and i have linked it to a url using the get url method as follows:

on (release) {
getURL(“http://www.yahoo.com”,"_self",“GET”);
}

when i test the SWF file in flash, the button opens up a new web page.

However, when i publish the file in Flash, and then open the HTML file and click the button, the webpage will not open.

what am i supposed to do, i need help now!