refreshing a page?

is it possible to make a page refresh when it is loaded.. i only want it to refresh once. i have tried using meta refresh tags, i have also tried using meta tags to prevent it from caching, but none of this works.
i just need to make it so when they go to the page it refreshes once.

would it be possible to write a javascript code that basically said
If you came from another page, or used the back button to get to his page, than refresh the page?
thats kinda what i want.. unfortunately i am no well versed in javascript.

another idea i had (but still don't know much about doing) is that when a user goes to a certain page it gives them a cookie, then if they go back to the first page it refreshes if they have that cookie (because i really only need the page to refresh if they have already been to a certain page) then have the script get rid of the cookie so that the process will start over.

[Edited by [email protected] on Nov. 03, 2000 at 11:15 AM]