Serialisation and deserialisation of HTTP request and response messages in ASP.NET Web API

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	public interface IHttpMessageSerializer
	{
		void Serialize(HttpResponseMessage response, Stream stream);
		void Serialize(HttpRequestMessage request, Stream stream);
		HttpResponseMessage DeserializeToResponse(Stream stream);
		HttpRequestMessage DeserializeToRequest(Stream stream);
	}


	public class MessageContentHttpMessageSerializer : IHttpMessageSerializer
	{
		private bool _bufferContent;

		public MessageContentHttpMessageSerializer() : this(false)
		{
			
		}

		public MessageContentHttpMessageSerializer(bool bufferContent)
		{
			_bufferContent = bufferContent;
		}


		public void Serialize(HttpResponseMessage response, Stream stream)
		{
			byte[] assuranceBuffer = null;
			if (_bufferContent && response.Content != null)
				assuranceBuffer = response.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync().Result; // make sure it is buffered

			var httpMessageContent = new HttpMessageContent(response);
			var buffer = httpMessageContent.ReadAsByteArrayAsync().Result;
			stream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
		}

		public void Serialize(HttpRequestMessage request, Stream stream)
		{
			byte[] assuranceBuffer = null;
			if (_bufferContent && request.Content != null)
				assuranceBuffer = request.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync().Result; // make sure it is buffered

			var httpMessageContent = new HttpMessageContent(request);
			var buffer = httpMessageContent.ReadAsByteArrayAsync().Result;
			stream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
		}

		public HttpResponseMessage DeserializeToResponse(Stream stream)
		{
			var response = new HttpResponseMessage();
			var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
			stream.CopyTo(memoryStream);
			response.Content = new ByteArrayContent(memoryStream.ToArray());
			response.Content.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/http;msgtype=response");
			return response.Content.ReadAsHttpResponseMessageAsync().Result;
		}

		public HttpRequestMessage DeserializeToRequest(Stream stream)
		{
			var request = new HttpRequestMessage();
			var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
			stream.CopyTo(memoryStream);
			request.Content = new ByteArrayContent(memoryStream.ToArray());
			request.Content.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/http;msgtype=request");
			return request.Content.ReadAsHttpRequestMessageAsync().Result;
		}
	}

This serializer will turn https requests into http.

What to pass in stream while serializing Request? Is that mandatory?