> I'm calling a .cfm page that contains a <cfreport 
> format="flashpaper"> tag. Problem is the file extension of 
> the page I'm calling is .cfm but the MIME type of the 
> returned content is application/x-shockwave-flash.  Since 
> those don't match IE6 won't trigger the Flash plugin, it's 
> popping up a dialog telling me that "some files can harm your 
> computer" and would I like to open or save.
> 
> If I download a .swf to the browser, or download an .htm or 
> .cfm with an embed tag pointing to a .swf file, the flash 
> plugin works just fine.  I don't get this problem in FF 
> either, so... is this just weirdness in IE6?  Is there a 
> known workaround or way I can get IE6 to display SWF content 
> from a .cfm file?  Or is this supposed to work and my IE6 
> install is maybe broken?

Try using CFHEADER to tell the browser exactly what it's getting:
http://www.figleaf.com/demo/mimetest/

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