Time Delay Redirect

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[Lobo]

The situation is :

I have recently removed the forums from my website.

Having now set up an agreement with another site I now want to redirect anyone that clicks on our forums to be redirected to the new place...

I'd like to add a 30 sec redirect to let people know what is happening E.G. our forums are now in partnership with blahblah.com you can now discuss our widget there and will now be redirected... or something similar...

Then auto-redirect ...

What is the best way to do this?

Obviously don't want to upset the almighty G ...

[phranque]

you can do this with an html meta tag in the document head:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="30;URL=http://example.com/foo.html">

or as an http header (preceding your html doc):
Refresh: 30;URL=http://example.com/foo.html

where "30" is the delay in seconds before refreshing to the URL value.

i'm not sure how spiders handle Refresh headers...