getHeaders

[Cantor, Scott]

> what setting in apache(vhost) or shibboleth prompts  the dispatching of the
> headers.
>  "dispatching message (firstcare-tst-sso::getHeaders::Application)'
> 
> we are seeing this for one of our clients. and we are not receiving the SAML
> assertion values  in the request headers.

They have nothing to do with each other, you're misinterpreting a debug message in the log.

> We see the attributes in the SAML assertion in the log and then are decoded
> with no errors.

Then either you're accessing it incorrectly, accessing something that's not mapped, accessing an attribute that's not present in the session, or running a request that isn't protected by the SP's session so has no data exported to it.

-- Scott