add a pause for header redirect?

[scorpion]

Is there a way to add a kind of momentary pause when calling a header redirect in a PHP file (or even in javascript)?

e.g. header("Location: URL");

The reason is that it seems that in some cases such as when redirecting to an affiliate tracking code, if the user clicks really fast on the link, you'll get an internal server error from time to time. Is this a PHP configuration issue? Has anyone had server errors when redirecting to an affiliate-type link?

[jatar_k]

javascript

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="2; URL=http://www.site.com/">

where CONTENT="2" is the number of seconds to wait before redirecting