diff --git a/test/data/example-space-in-url.arc b/test/data/example-space-in-url.arc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da248a83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/data/example-space-in-url.arc
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+filedesc://live-web-example.arc.gz 127.0.0.1 20140216050221 text/plain 75
+1 0 LiveWeb Capture
+URL IP-address Archive-date Content-type Archive-length
+
+http://example.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Email&EmailTitle=Examples From The Live Web&IsPopUp=False 93.184.216.119 20140216050221 text/html 1591
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Accept-Ranges: bytes
+Cache-Control: max-age=604800
+Content-Type: text/html
+Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 05:02:20 GMT
+Etag: "359670651"
+Expires: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 05:02:20 GMT
+Last-Modified: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:54:35 GMT
+Server: ECS (sjc/4FCE)
+X-Cache: HIT
+x-ec-custom-error: 1
+Content-Length: 1270
+
+<!doctype html>
+<html>
+<head>
+    <title>Example Domain</title>
+
+    <meta charset="utf-8" />
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
+    <style type="text/css">
+    body {
+        background-color: #f0f0f2;
+        margin: 0;
+        padding: 0;
+        font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
+        
+    }
+    div {
+        width: 600px;
+        margin: 5em auto;
+        padding: 50px;
+        background-color: #fff;
+        border-radius: 1em;
+    }
+    a:link, a:visited {
+        color: #38488f;
+        text-decoration: none;
+    }
+    @media (max-width: 700px) {
+        body {
+            background-color: #fff;
+        }
+        div {
+            width: auto;
+            margin: 0 auto;
+            border-radius: 0;
+            padding: 1em;
+        }
+    }
+    </style>    
+</head>
+
+<body>
+<div>
+    <h1>Example Domain</h1>
+    <p>This domain is established to be used for illustrative examples in documents. You may use this
+    domain in examples without prior coordination or asking for permission.</p>
+    <p><a href="http://www.iana.org/domains/example">More information...</a></p>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
+
diff --git a/test/test_archiveiterator.py b/test/test_archiveiterator.py
index 8cba7600..93be6544 100644
--- a/test/test_archiveiterator.py
+++ b/test/test_archiveiterator.py
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ def test_example_arc_gz(self):
         expected = ['arc_header', 'response']
         assert self._load_archive('example.arc.gz') == expected
 
+    def test_example_space_in_url_arc(self):
+        expected = ['arc_header', 'response']
+        assert self._load_archive('example-space-in-url.arc') == expected
+
     def test_example_arc(self):
         expected = ['arc_header', 'response']
         assert self._load_archive('example.arc') == expected
diff --git a/warcio/recordloader.py b/warcio/recordloader.py
index 2467bde3..148480cd 100644
--- a/warcio/recordloader.py
+++ b/warcio/recordloader.py
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ def parse(self, stream, headerline=None):
             total_read += len(version)
             total_read += len(spec)
 
-        parts = headerline.split(' ')
+        parts = headerline.rsplit(' ', len(headernames)-1)
 
         if len(parts) != len(headernames):
             msg = 'Wrong # of headers, expected arc headers {0}, Found {1}'
