I'm pretty sure that's not how you are supposed to call the users endpoint. Try this:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/23234
You can do this with a vectorized string like so:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/23234;2598;1
You aren't supposed to pass id in as a url parameter. It is actually part of the url.
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