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For example, if I visit https://somewebsite.com/ can someone sniffing my network traffic still detect that I'm viewing that site or is it encrypted?
2012-01-16 08:49:00
If the attacker is sniffing locally on the same network, they can perform a very simple man-in-the-middle attack, which means they can intercept all of your traffic and de-crypt it easily. SSL is not secure against a local attacker.
2012-01-16 06:34:00
Yes. They can still see that you're communicating with that website. What they can't see is the specific part of the site you're accessing. So if you're accessing https://example.com/supersecretplace, they'll see "example.com" but not the "/supersecretplace" part.