OAuth with Signpost and Apache Commons HTTP

So I'm working with the Signpost OAuth library for Java. I'm running into some complications using the Apache Commons HTTP library with it. Take a look at the following code:

URL url = new URL("http://api.neoseeker.com/forum/get_pm_counts.json");
HttpRequest request = (HttpRequest) url.openConnection();

consumer.sign(request);

request.connect();

System.out.println("Response: " + request.getResponseCode() + " "
        + request.getResponseMessage());

This is taking from this example. You can see that request used to be a HttpURLConnection, but because I'll be using the Apache Commons HTTP library, I changed it to a HttpRequest object. Now, I'm getting errors when I call connect(), g开发者_如何转开发etResponseCode(), and getResponseMessage(), because those functions are for a HttpURLConnection. What functions from HttpRequest would I use so I can get the code to compile and run correctly? Thanks!

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Signpost has a seperate module for using Apache's HTTP client. You need to use a CommonsHttpOAuthConsumer for this.

This module lives here - http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/downloads/detail?name=signpost-commonshttp4-1.2.1.1.jar&can=2&q=

Some sample code to use it is here - http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/wiki/ApacheCommonsHttp4, but it just comes down to instantiating a CommonsHttpOAuthConsumer instead of the normal one...

If you use maven, the coordinates are here, I couldn't find them documented anywhere when I was trying to figure this out...

<dependency>
    <groupId>oauth.signpost</groupId>
    <artifactId>signpost-commonshttp4</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.1.1</version>
</dependency>