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"Confirm my account" link shows as https in development

As instructed in the ["Create administrator account" section of the QPixel Installation guide](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/blob/develop/INSTALLATION.md#create-administrator-account) I created a second new user through the user interface (clicking "Sign Up") in my local development instance of QPixel. I then visited `http://localhost:3000/letter_opener` in order to see the registration email containing the "Confirm my account" link. However, clicking on that link gave me an error page in Firefox:

```text
SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length
```

It turned out that this was because the link started with `https` instead of `http`. Fixing this resulted in the page loading correctly and displaying:

> Your email address has been successfully confirmed

Is this evidence of something incorrect about my local development instance? If not, is this something everyone has to do when confirming an email address in development for QPixel? If so, would it be useful to have the code check whether we are in development and display an `http` link instead of an `https` link in that case? Would this cause any problems or risks?