GetActiveOleObject fails even though CreateOleObject succeeds

[RedOctober]

Can some one explain what I am doing wrong?  After I successfully open IE from Lazarus, then I try to access it again later in code, I will get a "RPC server unavailable" error message.  In an attempt to overcome that error, I decided to try and "find" the Ole object by using GetActiveOleObject().  But that fails too... even immediately after the successful creation of the Ole object.

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1.  
2. uses  ... Windows, ComObj;
3. ...
4. Browser := CreateOleObject('InternetExplorer.Application');  // <--- this line succeeds
5. Browser := GetActiveOleObject('InternetExplorer.Application');  // <--- this line fails
6. ...
7.  
8.  

Error displayed:
Operation unavailable.

[Jurassic Pork]

hello,
may be a problem with the internet explorer com object. 
With ms Word i have no problem with this code :

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. procedure TForm1.Button3Click(Sender: TObject);
2. var msWord,sourDoc : OleVariant;
3. begin
4. msWord := CreateOleObject('Word.Application');
5. msWord := GetActiveOleObject('Word.Application');
6. sourDoc := msWord.Documents.Open('d:\temp\monDoc.doc');
7. msWord.Visible := true;
8. end;

maybe it is time to use other thing that internet explorer (end of life).  See this message

Friendly, J.P

[loaded]

may be a problem with the internet explorer com object. 

No problem, this is a precaution taken for security reasons.
You cannot connect to a session opened in Internet Explorer for security reasons, you can only access the session you started.