In the last two columns, I've been discussing my deepening understanding of JavaScript (" JavaScript for an ASP.NET Developer ") and my appreciation of JavaScript's beauty as a language oriented ...

I want to know if there is a way for a web page on the Linux box to go out to tghe ASP page, run a function which will return a result, and pass that result back to the page on the Linux server.

I'm a little confused by your description. I understand you have an asp.net webforms project that you inherited and you want it to call an MVC application or a Web API application.