I faced this problem as well and here's what I ended up doing:

sub irregular_run_mode {
  my $app = shift;
  $app->header_type("none");
  $| = 1;

  print $app->query()->header();


  # code here

  return "";
}

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Yeah. It tends not to work too well if you use cgiapp_postrun to alter the output. Of course, you can fix that with:

sub cgiapp_postrun {
  my ($app,$outref) = @_;
  return $outref if $app->get_current_runmode() eq "irregular_run_mode
+";

  # ...
}

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Note: I consider this to a be a hack and rather ugly. Please leave comments so if someone wishes to alter the irregular_run_mode so it works normally they will know that they need to alter cgiapp_postrun as well.

antirice    
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