Conditional rewrite HTTPS to HTTP

[cp2000]

I have a domain that is running both http and https. It is runnig as a virtual host under Apache 1.3.27. There are certain applications (by virtue of directories) that are non functional under https. Therefore I need to conditionally rewrite https to http.

To start with - index.html

The mod_rewrite rule, in my vhost conf file is:

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      RewriteLog "/usr/local/apache/logs/domain/rewrite_log"
       RewriteLogLevel 7
       RewriteEngine On
       #RewriteRule ^/index.html/(.*) [URL unfurl="true"]http://domain.com/index.html$1[/URL] [R]
       RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ [URL unfurl="true"]http://domain.com/index.html[/URL] [R]
    </IfModule>

I read in one of the other post here about using META tags but that didn't seem to work either. It looks like using rewrite is the way to go. I just can't get the syntax.....