title: Check cipher suite used in JMeter HTTP Request with https and TLS
body: <p>I have a JBoss EAP 6.3 server on localhost with a SOAP service on it which I am testing with Jmeter 2.11 and HTTP Request samplers.</p>
  
  <p>Now I want to analyze the impact on performance using HTTPS with TLSv1 when consuming the SOAP service. For testing this I am looping 1 thread with 8 HTTP Requests, of which 4 use HTTP on port 8080 and the same 4 again with HTTP<strong>S</strong> on port 8443.</p>
  
  <p>My first idea was to use Wireshark to see if the HTTPS requests are encrypted and spy on the SSL handshake to see the used cipher suite, but I can't listen on the loopback interface (I simply don't have one it seems).</p>
  
  <p><strong>So my question is:</strong> Can I somehow detect which cipher suite JMeter uses for https requests, for example from JMeter log files or using a Beanshell PostProcessor and read this information from some of the provided variables (ctx, prev, log, etc.)?</p>