> A few times now I have needed to capture a website,
> but found them incorrectly using the <base 
> href=''> tag.
> Firstly, does HTTrack use this tag for calculating
> pages to grab?
Yes, absolutely

> Would it be possible to ignore the base tag?  It 
would 
> greatly assist with certain sites.

Well.. this is not possible yet - you can hack the 
code (removing the "base" detection) for that, but 
this isn't implemented as an option yet.