Last September someone wanted to import custom data, and because of security restrictions, QuantConnect does not allow System.IO. I would like to revisit that restriction please.

I am writing an Alorithm for Abhi Goal, a fellow member, and he wants to read in some custom data upon which to base his trades. Call it a custom indicator. QC allows me to get data from an http:// call using WebClient and I would like to process the return data as a Stream. I would like to use StreamReader on the return from the call, but I could live with putting the returned csv data into a String and reading it into a MemoryStream and pass the MemoryStream to my parsing class. Streams are nice because I can grab a line at a time with one call.

I suppose could rewrite the parser to get the lines from the string variable, but that is painful what with having to parse for newlines and substring the result.

Thanks,

Nicholas Stein