When I try to redirect to a web page using php like this:

header("HTTP/1.1 200 Ok");
header("Location: /some/internal/url");

php does not send "200 Ok" status, instead it sends the default 302 status! any other status like 301, 302 work normally, I wonder why this is happening?

The case is, I have link structure like this: HomePage->Page A->Page B, I want PageRank to pass normally when linking from Page A to Page B and I don't want to use direct normal link because I want to count views to Page B and I don't want to include a counting script in Page B because I have so many.

How can I redirect using status 200 with php header function?

I am not sure what you're trying to do. You can't send a redirect with 200 status code, if you want to send a redirect location you'd have to use either 301 or 302 status code. Search engines don't have any problem with 301 status code, they pass PR as a normal link will do when they find a 301 redirect. Also, you can add view counting code on top of each page instead of using an intermediate page for that purpose.

You cannot redirect with 200 OK. You can only redirect with 301 or 302. RTFM RFC 2616.

Thank you for your replies

You also cannot do a header redirect after you have sent headers.