Well Thanks for looking at this everyone, I believe it’s some kind of bug or some security feature, the code below returns nil in 2007 when it does not in other versions
(defun c:test (/ a acad doc util)
(setq acad (vlax-get-acad-object)
doc (vla-get-activedocument acad)
util (vla-get-utility doc)
)
(vla-getremotefile util (strcat "http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=DYN&a=10&b=10&c=1993&d=09&e=28&f=2006&g=d&ignore=.csv")
'file actrue
)
file
)