Shopping Cart Page not in SSL

Using the latest version of ZC with Hostgator hosting I had them install their positive SSL on my site. Everything is working as should compared to my friends Zencart site with SSL on Hostgator execpt on mine when I click on the Shopping cart page link even when I'm logged in it takes me out of SSL.

Anyone have an idea what I should check or change? Or why it might be doing this.

Even when I click the link for shopping cart and leave the SSL area, I can click something like the checkout link or my account link and it goes right back to SSL.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

To be clear, pages such as the account and login pages are intended to use SSL if/when enabled to encrypt the data there. The shopping cart page does not have the same need for encryption. That said, is every page other than the shopping cart page served with SSL (https:)?

Yes all other pages are SSL as they should be. I was referencing my friends site and his shopping cart page is in SSL. I would think (First Problem right?) that being logged into my account it would show SSL on the shopping cart page.

The store front and product pages aren't SSL but the others like Check out and My account are. It evens goes SSL when I click on Login.

Barf:

The store front and product pages aren't SSL but the others like Check out and My account are. It evens goes SSL when I click on Login.

So again the pages identified as having SSL are absolutely the ones that should. If you for some reason want all of your pages everywhere to be shown with https, then you would need to modify your includes/configure.php file to have both web addresses include https. While a "popular" search engine has gone to suggesting that all pages everywhere should be hosted using SSL, historical discussion has been that this process slows down interaction unnecessarily. What is to be gained by encrypting the description of a product or the home page where no information is transferred between the host and the customer that would result in a loss of security information?

Ok. Thanks for the assistance. Needed to make sure something wasn't set wrong. First SSL I (almost) set up myself. Again Thanks!

Barf:

when I click on the Shopping cart page link even when I'm logged in it takes me out of SSL.

Anyone have an idea what I should check or change? Or why it might be doing this.

Even when I click the link for shopping cart and leave the SSL area, I can click something like the checkout link or my account link and it goes right back to SSL.
That's by design. You've done nothing wrong.

Only once have I seen a case where it was particularly important to have the shopping cart page in SSL ... because the items for sale were legal contracts and they allowed for customization via attributes, and it was desired to keep that information confidential. It required a few changes to PHP code to make it happen.
But for the most part it's not necessary.