SSLInfo.java

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLServerSocketFactory;

/*
 *  * Source from Christopher Schultz
 *   * @see http://markmail.org/message/zn4namfhypyxum23
 *    */
public class SSLInfo
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
		throws Exception
	{
		SSLServerSocketFactory ssf =
			(SSLServerSocketFactory)SSLServerSocketFactory.getDefault();

		String[] defaultCiphers = ssf.getDefaultCipherSuites();
		String[] availableCiphers = ssf.getSupportedCipherSuites();

		TreeMap ciphers = new TreeMap();

		for(int i=0; i<availableCiphers.length; ++i )
			ciphers.put(availableCiphers[i], Boolean.FALSE);

		for(int i=0; i<defaultCiphers.length; ++i )
			ciphers.put(defaultCiphers[i], Boolean.TRUE);

		System.out.println("Default\tCipher");
		for(Iterator i = ciphers.entrySet().iterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
			Map.Entry cipher=(Map.Entry)i.next();

			if(Boolean.TRUE.equals(cipher.getValue()))
				System.out.print('*');
			else
				System.out.print(' ');

			System.out.print('\t');
			System.out.println(cipher.getKey());
		}
	}
}

SSLTest.java

/*
 * Makes simple connection to SSL enabled site.
 * Useful for debugging SSL Exceptions :)
 *
 * To Run:
 *   $ javac SSLTest.java
 *   $ java -Djavax.net.debug=all SSLTest
 *
 */
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;

public class SSLTest {

  /**
   * @param args
   * @throws IOException
   * @throws UnknownHostException
   * @throws NumberFormatException
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) throws NumberFormatException,
         UnknownHostException, IOException {
           HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(new HostnameVerifier() {
             public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
               return true;
             }
           });

           Socket s = SSLSocketFactory.getDefault()
             .createSocket("api.sandbox.freeagent.com", 443);
           OutputStream out = s.getOutputStream();
           out.write("Say hello".getBytes("UTF8"));
           out.close();
           s.close();
  }
}