All you need is a header and 1 char of text (to avoid the document contained no data errors) to keep a browser happy. You definitely don't need any HTML tags.

tachyon@perlmonk>cat basic.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "1";
tachyon@perlmonk>
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cheers

tachyon

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