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I know that wget can fetch a remote page and its dependencies and rewrite the html so that image src attributes reference the newly downloaded images.

I am trying to convert local html files that reference images on the Internet. I'm using

wget --mirror --page-requisites --convert-links \
     --directory-prefix=foo \
     --force-html \
     --input-file=my_file.html

All of the referenced images are downloaded to the appropriate places in foo/ but the src attributes in my_file.html aren't being changed.

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That's a pretty neat use of wget. – womble Jul 7 '11 at 9:19
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Try this:

wget --recursive --page-requisites --convert-links --span-hosts http://localhost/some.html
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This still requires that I run an http server on my local machine just for wget--is there no way to do this using --input-file? – Kevin L. Jul 8 '11 at 14:19
I am afraid not. Wget do not support file:// scheme. --input-file is only to read many urls conveniently in a batch manner. – Casual Coder Jul 8 '11 at 17:13
Many of the images in the file have a relative src, so if I serve it from localhost wget 404's. Apparently the --base flag can only be used with --input-file and --force-html. – Kevin L. Jul 10 '11 at 4:27
Can you serve also the images? Using symlinks you can link to a foo/ directory with images, so your localhost path mimics that in relative src paths. Or you can edit html files and place base tag with appropriate href attribute in <head> section. – Casual Coder Jul 10 '11 at 5:47
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