Red Hat Certificate System and Firefox web configuration wizard error "Secure Connection Failed" at first attempt

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Issue

The Firefox browser fails in the initial SSL handshake of the first bootstrap page of the web based configuration wizard, with the following error:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to ca1.example.com:8445. Issuer certificate is invalid. (Error code: sec_error_ca_cert_invalid)

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11
with
firefox-31.1.0-6.el5
and Red Hat Certificate System 8.1

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