Removing HTTPS version of homepage from Google index

[MattAustin]

I have followed much advice on removing HTTPS pages from the Google index including:
1. Serving alternative robots.txt for HTTPS
2. Adding <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
for HTTPS pages
and this has worked nicely except for the URL:
<snip>
which will not drop out of the index. Does anyone know how to remove this last HTTPS URL?

[edited by: Receptional_Andy at 1:36 pm (utc) on Aug. 26, 2009]
[edit reason] No specific URLs please, see charter [/edit]

[rainborick]

For your home page, I would certainly start by using the rel="canonical" tag. I've had good results using this during a recent spate of the Google "//" in URLs problem and for other places where I've had trouble constructing an effective .htaccess directive.

[jdMorgan]

> 1. Serving alternative robots.txt for HTTPS

If you block a URL using robots.txt, then Google will never fetch that URL, and will not see any on-page meta-tags or follow any 301 redirects that you may implement. Therefore, they will take no action.

Jim