[Satellite6] registering a client machine to an external capsule fails on "JSON parsing error"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • registering a client machine directly to Satellite works
  • registering the same machine to an external capsule fails with error in rhsm.log:
JSON parsing error: No JSON object could be decoded

Environment

Red Hat Satellite or Proxy 6

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