simple irule not forwarding

I see two things with your rule.

First, is that [HTTP::host] is never going to be a full URL. The host portion of the request would be "aira.coxnet.cox.net". Your rule will never match an HTTP host because you will never get one that looks like the one in your rule.

Second, you say this is rule is on an HTTPS vip. Any requests going to this vip are going to be of the form, "https://aira.coxnet.cox.net/???". It looks like what you are trying to do is redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS. If you want all traffic to go over HTTPS, you could configure a vip listening on port 80 and add a rule that redirects all requests to HTTPS. It might look something like this:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  HTTP::redirect "https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"
}
 

You could always check the HTTP host on that if you wanted which would make it look like this:

 
when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if {[HTTP::host] equals "aira.coxnet.cox.net" } {
    HTTP::redirect "https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"
  }
}

Richard