Webhooks works but sending message to Telegram is not allowed.

app.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
 import gradio as gr
 import requests
-#import httpx
 import os
 
 
@@ -10,26 +9,17 @@ HF_API_KEY = API_TOKEN
 
 TOKEN = os.environ.get('TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN')
 BASE_URL = f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{TOKEN}"
-#BASE_URL = f"https://149.154.167.220/bot{TOKEN}"
 
 CUSTOM_PATH = "/gradio"
 app = FastAPI()
 
-#client = httpx.AsyncClient()
-
 @app.get("/")
 async def read_main():
-    chat_id = "6688451059"
-    text = "main"
-    msg = f"{BASE_URL}/sendMessage?chat_id={chat_id}&text={text}"
-    print(msg)
-    response = requests.get(msg)
-    print(response.text)
-    return {"message": "This is your main app"}
+    return {"message": "/webhook is for Telegram webhook and works. But respond message cannot be sent because Huggingface space does not support connection to https://api.telegram.org/."}
 
 @app.post("/")
 async def read_main():
-    return {"message": "This is webhook"}
+    return {"message": "This is for dummy webhook"}
 
 @app.post("/webhook")
 async def webhook(req: Request):
@@ -38,12 +28,8 @@ async def webhook(req: Request):
     text = data['message']['text']
 
     msg = f"{BASE_URL}/sendMessage?chat_id={chat_id}&text={text}"
-    print(msg)
-    #await client.get(msg)
-    
-    #response = requests.get(msg, verify=False)
-    response = requests.get("https://git.io/JJkYN")
-    print(response.text)
+    # Sending message to api.telegram.org fails for "No address associated with hostname"     
+    #response = requests.get(msg)
 
     return data
 
@@ -65,5 +51,3 @@ with gr.Blocks() as demo:
     input.change(fn=flip_text, inputs=input, outputs=output)
 
 gr.mount_gradio_app(app, demo, path=CUSTOM_PATH)
-
-#uvicorn.run(app, port=8443)