after hours of pissing around on the mac...gave up..so got this configured how i wanted in VS2015 now to see if it works on the mac

src/Ocelot.Library/Middleware/ProxyExtensions.cs

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+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
+
+namespace Ocelot.Library.Middleware
+{
+    public static class ProxyExtensions
+    {
+        public static IApplicationBuilder UseProxy(this IApplicationBuilder builder)
+        {
+            return builder.UseMiddleware<ProxyMiddleware>();
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Ocelot.Library/Middleware/ProxyMiddleware.cs

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+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
+
+namespace Ocelot.Library.Middleware
+{
+    public class ProxyMiddleware
+    {
+        private readonly RequestDelegate _next;
+
+        public ProxyMiddleware(RequestDelegate next)
+        {
+            _next = next;
+        }
+
+        public async Task Invoke(HttpContext context)
+        {
+            await _next.Invoke(context);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Ocelot.Library/Middleware/RequestLoggerExtensions.cs

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+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
+
+namespace Ocelot.Library.Middleware
+{
+    public static class RequestLoggerExtensions
+    {
+        public static IApplicationBuilder UseRequestLogger(this IApplicationBuilder builder)
+        {
+            return builder.UseMiddleware<RequestLoggerMiddleware>();
+        }
+    }
+} 

src/Ocelot.Library/Middleware/RequestLoggerMiddleware.cs

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+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
+
+namespace Ocelot.Library.Middleware
+{
+    public class RequestLoggerMiddleware
+    {
+        private readonly RequestDelegate _next;
+        private readonly ILogger _logger;
+
+        public RequestLoggerMiddleware(RequestDelegate next, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
+        {
+            _next = next;
+            _logger = loggerFactory.CreateLogger<RequestLoggerMiddleware>();
+        }
+
+        public async Task Invoke(HttpContext context)
+        {
+            _logger.LogInformation("Handling request: " + context.Request.Path);
+            await _next.Invoke(context);
+            _logger.LogInformation("Finished handling request.");
+        }
+    } 
+}