Accessing environment variables

Good morning,
I have an implementation of Oracle Application Server 10G using a Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) 2.1 for SSO authentication. The problem I am facing now is to accessing with APEX the environmental variables created by the SP. In my tests I used PHP and everything is working well. However with APEX I only have access to a very limited group of environment variables. Anybody have a suggestion or idea on how to solve this problem?
The variable I need is "Login".
Thank you very much.
hugo

Hello,
Take a look at this thread, where I answer a similar problem -
Re: Unable to access external HTTP Headers
Hope this helps,
John.
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