Joel
what are your settings in your local version of AEM as far as sending the beacon call?
can you spin up IIS on your local machine so it could act as a web server?
im just kind of thinking this through. I am not an AEM expert by any means but have a pretty good grasp on networking, etc.
if you are familiar with DWB or have the ability to get it, it has a product called Report. This was used to publish workspaces/reports to a portal that was through IIS on the server. You might be able to work with the xml behind this to help with your quandary.