your system' file explorer gui howeverthe cgi scripts ultimately invoked by some of the example links must be run by web server if you click to browse such pages directlyyour browser will likely display the scriptssource codeinstead of running it to run scriptstoobe sure to open the html pages by typing their "localhosturl address into your browser' address field eventuallyyou probably will want to start using more powerful web serverso we will study additional cgi installation details later in this you may also wish to review our prior exploration of custom server options in (apache and mod_python are popular optionsuch details can be safely skipped or skimmed if you will not be installing on another server right away for nowwe'll run locally viewing server-side examples and output the source code of examples in this part of the book is listed in the text and included in the book' examples distribution package in all casesif you wish to view the source code of an html fileor the html generated by python cgi scriptyou can also simply select your browser' view source menu option while the corresponding web page is displayed keep in mindthoughthat your browser' view source option lets you see the output of server-side script after it has runbut not the source code of the script itself there is no automatic way to view the python source code of the cgi scripts themselvesshort of finding them in this book or in its examples distribution to address this issuelater in this we'll also write cgi-based program called getfilewhich allows the source code of any file on this book' website (htmlcgi scriptand so onto be downloaded and viewed simply type the desired file' name into web page form referenced by the getfile html link on the internet demos launcher page of figure - or add it to the end of an explicitly typed url as parameter like the followingreplace tutor py at the end with the name of the script whose code you wish to viewand omit the cgi-bin component at the end to view html files insteadin responsethe server will ship back the text of the named file to your browser this process requires explicit interface stepsthoughand much more knowledge of urls than we've gained thus farto learn how and why this magic line workslet' move on to the next section server-side scripting