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 ASP.NET Core Basic Middleware Components
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-This repo hosts a collection of basic middleware components for ASP.NET Core.
+This repo hosts a collection of basic middleware components for ASP.NET Core. This includes Buffering, HTTP Overrides, and URL Rewriting. 
+The Rewrite middleware can import rules from IIS's UrlRewrite and Apache's mod_rewrite.
 
 This project is part of ASP.NET Core. You can find samples, documentation and getting started instructions for ASP.NET Core at the [Home](https://github.com/aspnet/home) repo.