I have recently been looking into HTTPS, and just how secure it is.
I went to an https site which had a valid certificate and entered my username and password. Using Fiddler, I decrypted the requests which appeared after clicking the submit button, and there was my username and password in plain text in a string containing key-value pairs (this wasn't the querystring, it was the post values).
Can anyone enlighten me as to why HTTPS is said to be secure when it is this easy for me to get the username and password using an external application? I mean it was pretty much instant decryption, and surely a hacker could use an application to find out what requests you're making and decrypt them, can't they?