Ideally should a 301 or 302 redirect be used from https://www.site.com to http://www.site.com? Is there a valid reason to use a 302 in this situation or would using a 301 have any negative impact on seo?
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301 versus 302 redirect from https to http
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302 is temporary and 301 is permanent
Personally I'd only use https on pages that actually needed it, like a payment page but I'd recommend you go with a 301 redirect for each respective page.
And don't forget to redirect your non-www URLs to your WWW URLs as well.
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