CONNT-25: Updating application and project to use Django 1.9.x:

- Updated the html_link tag implementation to produce safe output, and
added tests for it.
- Updated URL configuration in both the application and test project
according to deprecation warning.
- Updated views that return customized forms to ensure the form_class
passed in to get_form is optional.
- Bumped Django in both setup script and development requirements to
version 1.9.x.
- Updated test project configuration to match the version produced by
Django 1.9.x admin commands.