I'm using a Perl script with Apache and mod_perl to generate dynamic responses to client requests. At times I would like to signal Apache that my response is complete so the client can begin processing the response while on the server I perform a bunch of other clean up tasks. My code looks like this

use CGI::Simple;
my $q = new CGI::Simple;
print $q->header(%HTTP_HEADERS);
print $html;
# response complete
... continue with various tasks ...
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