Activity windows shows "cancelled" for a .mpg file

When I paste a valid URL into Safari the Quicktime player opens within Safari but the status message reads: "Failed to open page (see Activity window for details)". The activity windows status column just reads: "cancelled" that that URL.
Pasting the URL into Firefox works w/o a problem.
I am using Safari 5 and SnowLeopard (with all the latest updates).
Olaf

There seems to be a bug in Safari with .mpg files that include a space in the file name:
* Safari issues a cryptic error, not even a file not found type error.
* Replacing the file name with a %20 does not work either.
* Safari works fine for *.mp4 files that include a space in the file name.
URL with a space fails:
http://www.wilhelmtell.org/images/Wilhelm Tell.org_web5.mpg
This URL also fails (but works in other browsers):
http://www.wilhelmtell.org/images/Wilhelm%20Tell.org_web5.mpg
URL w/o space in the file name works:
http://www.wilhelmtell.org/images/WilhelmTell.orgweb51.mpg
URL with a space in for .mp4 works:
http://www.wilhelmtell.org/images/Wilhelm Tell.org_web3.mp4
Olaf

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