I don't think there is a more colloquial term that fully encompasses the meaning of confidant. I can't think of a more formal one, either.

Confidant and confidante are not particularly formal terms, even if they sound it. These are not uncommon in everyday parlance.

If you truly require something more colloquial, you'll probably have to settle for a longer phrase. Even then, many of the terms I might use to construct such a phrase seem no less formal than confidant:


privileged
privy
trusted
counselor


More colloquial term for "confidant"
I set up a local server using XAMPP. I have two php scripts , a sender and a receiver. I am trying to send an XML file from the sender to the receiver using HTTP over SSL (HTTPS).

I created a self signed certificate , i configured XAMPP and i use this code on my sender :

&lt;?php
  /*
   * XML Sender/Client.
   */
  // Get our XML. You can declare it here or even load a file.


  $xml = file_get_contents("data.xml");

  // We send XML via CURL using POST with a http header of text/xml.
  $ch = curl_init();

  //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,3);

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO,  getcwd().'ipm.crt');
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, getcwd().'ipm.pem');

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD,'pass');

  //i use this line only for debugging through fiddler. Must delete after done with debugging.
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, '127.0.0.1:8888');

  // set URL and other appropriate options
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://ipv4.fiddler/iPM/receiver.php");
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'https://ipv4.fiddler/iPM/receiver.php');
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $ch_result = curl_exec($ch);
  echo "Result = ".$ch_result;

  echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);

  curl_close($ch);
  // Print CURL result.
?&gt;


However i always get this error : Curl error: unable to use client certificate (no key found or wrong pass phrase?)

What can i possibly do wrong? The passphrase IS the word pass .

I created my .crt by doing :

openssl req -config openssl.cnf -new -out ipm.csr -keyout ipm.pem

openssl rsa -in ipm.pem -out ipm.key

openssl x509 -in ipm.csr -out ipm.crt -req -signkey ipm.key -days 365


I dont want to put the SSL_VERIFYPEER and SSL_VERIFYHOST to false.
