However, when you attempt to log into the site, the browser redirects from your local URL (e.g. http://localhost:555555 to httpS://<ActualDomainName>).
When this happens, I think, "hey, I just need to dig around in the database's Settings table and find the value that forces it to SSL, and maybe also the SSL URL value as well). Then I search all over the Settings table and can't find it. Then I think, "hey, maybe this setting is in the web.config" (because there are some other platforms that do that), but can't find it there either.
Then I finally realize, "hey, this is probably a store-specific setting, so I wonder if it's in the Store table." And voila, it is!
So, if you need to temporarily view/change the settings that enforce SSL, as well as the URLs of the store, look in the Store table. Here's the T-SQL for your convenience:
SELECT Id, Name, Url, SslEnabled, SecureUrl, Hosts
FROM Store