function replaceURLWithHTMLLinks(text) { var exp = /(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/ig; return text.replace(exp,"$1"); } $(function connect() { sock = new SockJS('/echo'); sock.onopen = function() { console.log('open'); sock.send('open'); }; sock.onmessage = function(e) { console.log('message', e.data); try { var object = JSON.parse(e.data); console.log(object.message); var safe_message = $('
').text(object.message).html(); safe_message = replaceURLWithHTMLLinks(safe_message); var safe_from = $('').text(object.from).html(); $('#chatbox').append('