hail monks,

i am writing a perl script to display the items in an outlook calendar. i have outlook 2000 installed locally on my computer, i am NOT using exchange or anything. here is the code i have so far: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use Win32::OLE;

# ----------------------------------------

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

my $ol = Win32::OLE->new('Outlook.Application') or die "error\n";
 
my $olns = $ol->GetNameSpace("MAPI") or die "can't open MAPI namespace
+\n";

my $folder = $olns->GetDefaultFolder(9);

my $items = $folder->{Items};

for my $index (1 .. $items->{Count})
{
    print $items->Item($index)->{Subject} . "\n";
    print $items->Item($index)->{Body} . "\n";
    print $items->Item($index)->{Start} . "\n";
    print $items->Item($index)->{End} . "\n";
}

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it works fine running through CMD, but when i try to run it through IIS, it just hangs and does nothing. i also get an error in event viewer stating: "the server { ... } did not registe with DCOM within the required timeout."

i read on google groups that i should use CDO or extended mapi... not quite sure how to go about this, i dont know if there is an easier way with the code i have?

thanks monks!

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