Hi Krileon,
I wouldn't say it's a good or correct solution. However,
it's sort of resolved. Also it should be noted that CoKnown is about 80% custom programming - No core hacks on CB or Joomla.
Here's what I had to do for the benefit of others.
To get rid of the "partially encrypted" page issue.
1) changed live site to https -- This resolves the header includes being http.
(can't leave it blank or it will throw 500 errors on Safari mobile - due to custom Java programming)
Also this causes all CSS and JS pages to be internally linked as https even on non-SSL pages. (minor server hit)
2) Set pages I needed encrypted to "force SSL on"(in menu manager)
3) Set every other page on the site to SSL off
The remaining problem is that hitting the registration page (or other SSL page) will cause the home page to be displayed as https from that point forward. (bad for SEO -- this may be solvable via mod_rewrite... or hardwiring the home page button as an external URL.)
Anyway - I'd still Love to know how to do this the right way. I wrote this up in case the only way to switch between SSL and non SSL requires this type f work around.
hit
coknown.com/registration then home menu item (defualt) goes to
coknown.com/
This still does not seem to be the way things should be working.
Thank you,
Eric