COM - BSTR - CGI error

[bholub]

I'll try to make this real simple:

$RSA = new COM("RSACookieAPI.RSACookie", NULL) or die ("nope"); 
$GetSecurID = $RSA->RSAGetUserName();

it instantiates fine... but when i try to call RSAGetUserName PHP dies. the value returned is a "BSTR" which i assume is the problem... is there a way around this?

the error given is:

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

Thanks - and maybe a DVD copy of The Big Lebowski to someone whose solution is accepted by my boss 🙂