in reply to Force 1.0 response on Apache

I don't think you are going to be abe to do it for just one step of a script, unless the url is unique and predictable at the step. Untested but I believe should work for apache 1.3+ for an entire script.
SetEnvIf Request_URI "path/to/yourscript.pl$" force-response-1.0


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