Auto-config removing /OA_HTML from HTML agent string

Customer is on release 12.1.3 of E-Business Suite. Here is the behavior of this following query before one executes the actions detailed in https://mosemp.us.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=577494.1Doc ID 577494.1 to run $FND_TOP/sql/afsvcpup.sql

SELECT b.component_id,b.component_name, c.parameter_name, c.display_name, a.parameter_value
FROM fnd_svc_comp_param_vals a,
fnd_svc_components b,fnd_svc_comp_params_vl c
WHERE b.component_id = a.component_id
AND b.component_type = c.component_type
AND c.parameter_id = a.parameter_id
AND c.encrypted_flag = 'N'