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/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);
+        }
+    }
+}