Just throwing out a few possibilities:
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You may be loading a page that contains FRAMES, and the image may have a URL relative to a different frame than you expect.
- The image may be Javascript-generated
- The URL you have may result in a REDIRECT that displays the final image (Update)
- The image may be over 4 Gb - IIS throws 501 errors in that case.
You may need to capture packets and/or view the page source to get more information about this problem. It would also help if you posted the image URL.
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