It is also important to change you output type to

# make sure we are writing to a binary stream
binmode STDOUT;
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So, when sending the correct header to the browser it will look like an image.
I had the same problem when dealing with images for the web. I found easier to put the script that generates
the graphic in a diferent page, staying like this

<img src='/perl/mygraph.pl'>
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