HTTPS Site Won't Load

I'm trying to go to the following site:
https://sportal.uspto.gov
However, I get the following error:
'Safari can’t open the page “https://sportal.uspto.gov/” because it couldn’t establish a secure connection to the server “sportal.uspto.gov”.'
I can open the page in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera, as well as by using curl from a Terminal window; however, only Safari supports an applet that I need to use at that site.
From searching discussion groups, I tried enabling the Debug menu and using lax certificate checking, but that option is no longer available in Safari 2.0.4. I also tried fixing permissions and rebooting.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to access this site?
iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8) Safari 2.0.4
iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office is looking into the problem. The problem was introduced by Apple's update to the file "/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CFNetw ork.framework/CFNetwork" in the 10.4.8 release. If I replace the CFNetwork file with CFNetwork_debug or CFNetwork_profile residing in the same directory, then I can access https://sportal.uspto.gov.
The 10.4.8 release allegedly fixes a problem with CFNetwork by setting the default to disallowing unauthenticated encrypted SSL sessions. I suspect this may be the ultimate cause. This raises several questions:
(1) Is there anyway to use curl or other browser to determine whether or not this is an unauthenticated encrypted SSL connection?
(2) What is an unauthenticated, encrypted SSL connection? If I type "curl https://sportal.uspto.gov -v", the output suggests that the SSL certificate for the sportal.uspto.gov server is valid. Isn't this the only authentication that would occur? Wouldn't this make it authenticated?
(3) How can I get Apple to fix this? If there is a potential security problem, Safari should at least give a message that is sufficient such that a user of Safari could tell a SSL server administrator what the problem is so that it can be remedied.
(4) The USPTO is "working with Apple" to fix the problem. Does anyone have a clue as to what the USPTO configuration problem could be?
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