The hyperlink is now being sent by the server to the client using the normal message system (courtesy of Andre) and is detected by looking for the "https://" at the beginning of the URL. The link is also opening when it is received (with help from Delia) however this still needs to be changed so that it opens when it is clicked instead of when the message is received.
The link is now opened by a local function within the receiveMessage function so that the link does not need to be passed as an argument to the function which was causing the issue due to the external code being used to allow hyperlinks in tkinter's text widget. So hyperlinks can now be clicked and are sent with a snippet from the search result which is shown to the user.
hortonr6 commentedNov 15, 2017
Need hyperlink to appear as a working link in the GUI
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